All Malcolm Gladwell Quotes
- An aggressive drug-testing program would cut down on certain abuses, but its never going to catch everyone - or even close to everyone. Abuse
- 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 be… Businessman
- You don't want to be first, right? You want to be second or third. You don't want to be - Facebook is not the first… Been
- I'm necessarily parasitic in a way. I have done well as a parasite. But I'm still a parasite. Done Well
- The hope with Tipping Point was it would help the reader understand that real change was possible. With Blink, I wanted to get people to… Blink
- Six degrees of separation doesn't mean that everyone is linked to everyone else in just six steps. It means that a very small number of… Degrees
- The answer is that the success of any kind of social epidemic is heavily dependent on the involvement of people with a particular and rare… Answer
- The kinds of errors that cause plane crashes are invariably errors of teamwork and communication. Cause
- Nobody accomplishes success by themselves. Accomplish
- Does that mean we should give up? Probably. But there are two issues worth considering. The first is - is it really true that drugs… Considering
- What must underlie successful epidemics, in the end, is a bedrock belief that change is possible, that people can radically transform their behavior or beliefs… Bedrock
- If we think about emotion this way - as outside-in, not inside out - it is possible to understand how some people can have an… All
- People who bring transformative change have courage, know how to re-frame the problem and have a sense of urgency. Bring
- Part of me thinks that innovation, real innovation in health care delivery, needs to happen from the bottom to the top. Bottom
- Bad improvisers block action, often with a high degree of skill. Good improvisers develop action. Action
- We tell ourselves that skill is the precious resource and effort is the commodity. It's the other way around. Effort can trump ability-relentl ess effort… Ability
- If a window is broken and left unrepaired, people walking by will conclude that no one cares and no one is in charge. Soon, more… Anarchy
- Activism that challenges the status quo, that attacks deeply rooted problems, is not for the faint of heart. Activism
- If you think advantage lies in resources, then you think the best educational system is the one that spends the most money. Advantage
- Consistency is the most overrated of all human virtues... I'm someone who changes his mind all the time. All