The lesson here is very simple. But it is striking how often it is overlooked. We are so caught in the myths… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
I recently talked to an eighteen-year-old - a huge FIFA fan - and realized that he spends more time playing the FIFA… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
My highest compliment is when someone comes up to me to say, "My 14-year-old daughter, or my 12-year-old son read your book… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
It is quite possible for people who have never met us and who have spent only twenty minutes thinking about us to… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Re-reading is much underrated. I've read The Spy Who Came in from the Cold once every five years since I was 15.… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“To become a chess grandmaster also seems to take about ten years. (Only the legendary Bobby Fischer got to that elite level… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
It is those who are successful, in other words, who are most likely to be given the kinds of special opportunities that… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
The 10,000-hours rule says that if you look at any kind of cognitively complex field, from playing chess to being a neurosurgeon,… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
It is useful to compare the Branch Davidians with the Mormons of the mid-nineteenth century. The Mormons were vilified in those years… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Countless religious innovators over the years have played the game of establishing an identity for themselves by accentuating their otherness. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
No one who can rise before dawn three hundred sixty days a year fails to make his family rich. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
There's no idea that can't be explained to a thoughtful 14-year-old. If the thoughtful 14-year-old doesn't get it, it is your fault,… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
David Epstein, the author of the best book on athletics in recent memory - "The Sports Gene" - wrote to me to… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
People at CDC [Centers for Disease Control] who cut their teeth on diseases over the last 10 years have started to think… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
You don't train someone for all of those years of medical school and residency, particularly people who want to help others optimize… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Take a random group of 8-year-old American and Japanese kids, give them all a really, really hard math problem, and start a… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
I write my books to challenge my own feelings and theories. Perhaps most surprising was what I learned about rice farming. It… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Sometimes [genius] is just the thing that emerges after twenty years of working at your kitchen table. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
When I go to my health club, and it's in the basement, you have to take the elevator down. And this drives me crazy.… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“The scholars who research happiness suggest that more money stops making people happier at a family income of around seventy-five thousand dollars a year.… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
We need to be clear when we venerate entrepreneurs what we are venerating.They are not moral leaders. If they were moral leaders, they wouldn't… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“Some people look like they sound better than they actually sound, because they look confident and have good posture," once musician, a veteran of… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
A handicap is like trying to race and you have a ten pound weight stuck to your waist. That is a handicap. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“neighborhood was filled with engineers from Hewlett-Packard, then as now one of” — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“People are ruined by challenged economic lives. But they are ruined by wealth as well because they lose their ambition and they lose their… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
The single most important thing a city can do is provide a community where interesting, smart people want to live with their families. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
[Norden] said, with the Mark 15 Norden bombsight, he could drop a bomb into a pickle barrel at 20,000 feet. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
The willingness to be self-critical in England is much greater than the willingness to be self-critical in America. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
The conventional explanation for Jewish success, of course, is that Jews come from a literate, intellectual culture. They are famously "the people of the… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
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