When I go to my health club, and it's in the basement, you have to take the elevator down. And this drives… — 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
You think it matters to the kids whether they're learning to play on a Steinway or a normal piano? — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
We used to say poor people had lousy genes. Then we decided that wasn't OK, but we transferred the prejudice to upbringing.… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
If you're last in your class at Harvard, it doesn't feel like you're a good student, even though you really are. It's… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
If Harvard is $60,000 and University of Toronto, where I went to school, is maybe six. So you're really telling me that… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
If you are going to do something truly innovative, you have to be someone who does not value social approval. You can't… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
When you write about sports, you're allowed to engage in mischief. Nothing is at stake. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
If you go to an elite school where the other students in your class are all really brilliant, you run the risk… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
We all assume that if you're weak and poor, you're never going to win. In fact, the real world is full of… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Age-class running, as you know, is completely unreliable. It's based on this artificial thing, which is that people who are the same… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Do you remember the wrestler Andre the Giant? Famous. He had acromegaly. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
If you take away the gift of reading, you create the gift of listening. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
If my books appear to a reader to be oversimplified, then you shouldn't read them: You're not the audience! — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
You walk into the class in second grade. You can't read. What are you going to do if you're going to make… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
If you're skinny and you can't play hockey in Canada, you aren't left with a lot of options. I was left with… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Once you understand that Goliath is much weaker than you think he is, and David has superior technology, then you say: why… — 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
In my mid-adolescence, my friend Terry Martin and I became obsessed with William F. Buckley. This makes more sense when you realize… — 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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