Malcolm Gladwell

I'm in the storytelling business, and so you're always drawn to the unusual. And early on, I discovered that's the easiest way…

— Malcolm Gladwell

That was it! The whole Redwood City philosophy was based on a willingness to try harder than anyone else.

— Malcolm Gladwell

A study at the University of Utah found that if you ask someone why he is friendly with someone else, he’ll say…

— Malcolm Gladwell

Acquaintances represent a source of social power, and the more acquaintances you have the more powerful you are.

— Malcolm Gladwell

“To Sternberg, practical intelligence includes things like “knowing what to say to whom, knowing when to say it, and knowing how to…

— Malcolm Gladwell

“Works were expected to be microscopically accurate, properly ‘finished’ and formally framed, with proper perspective and all the familiar artistic conventions,”

— Malcolm Gladwell

Incompetence annoys me. Overconfidence terrifies me.

— Malcolm Gladwell

“What are we seeing here? One very real possibility is that these are the educational consequences of the differences in parenting styles…

— Malcolm Gladwell

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

“. . . it is not possible to staff a large company without short people. There simply aren't enough tall people to go around.”

— Malcolm Gladwell

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— Malcolm Gladwell

So, it's a very, you know - maybe we're wrong in - you know, we go around thinking the innovator is the…

— Malcolm Gladwell

I'm a purist: I start to wrinkle my nose when the Cold War ends.

— Malcolm Gladwell

Without the New York Times, there is no blog community. They'd have nothing to blog about.

— Malcolm Gladwell

“Virtually all of the advantage that wealthy students have over poor students is the result of differences in the way privileged kids…

— Malcolm Gladwell

Economists often talk about the 80/20 Principle, which is the idea that in any situation roughly 80 percent of the “work” will…

— Malcolm Gladwell

Poverty is not deprivation, it is isolation.

— Malcolm Gladwell

You may hate Hillary Clinton and you may have good reason for hating Hillary Clinton, but Hillary Clinton is one person who…

— Malcolm Gladwell

If a window is broken and left unrepaired, people walking by will conclude that no one cares and no one is in…

— Malcolm Gladwell

My earliest memories of my father are of seeing him work at his desk and realizing that he was happy. I did…

— Malcolm Gladwell

Giants are not what we think they are. The same qualities that appear to give them strength are often the sources of…

— Malcolm Gladwell

It changes how people read you if you believe in God. It gives insight into your motivation, how you look at problems…

— Malcolm Gladwell

“What Heinz had done was come up with a condiment that pushed all five of these primal buttons. The taste of Heinz’s…

— Malcolm Gladwell

“One of the most important tools in contemporary educational research is value added analysis.”

— Malcolm Gladwell

Ideas and products and messages and behaviors spread just like viruses do.

— Malcolm Gladwell