All Malcolm Gladwell Quotes
- Our unconscious is really good at quick decision-making - it often delivers a better answer than more deliberate and exhaustive ways of thinking. Answer
- You need to have the ability to gracefully navigate the world. Ability
- The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness - in the service… Accomplishment
- The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world. Clean
- We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don't always appreciate their fragility. Always Appreciate
- What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't judge a book by its cover. We believe… Always Better
- There will be statues of Bill Gates across the Third World. There's a reasonable shot that - because of his money - we will cure… Across
- We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We're a bit too quick to come up with explanations for things we don't really have an… Beings
- The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter. Decision
- The answer is that we are not helpless in the face of our first impressions. They may bubble up from the unconscious - from behind… Answer
- Arousal leaves us mind-blind. Arousal
- Insight is not a lightbulb that goes off inside our heads. It is a flickering candle that can easily be snuffed out. Candle
- The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire. Behavior
- Truly successful decision-making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking. Balance
- Cultural legacies are powerful forces. They have deep roots and long lives. They persist, generation after generation, virtually intact, even as the economic and social… Attitude
- When we become expert in something, our tastes grow more esoteric and complex. Become Expert
- Who we are cannot be separated from where we're from. From
- I want to convince you that these kinds of personal explanations of success don't work. People don't rise from nothing....It is only by asking where… Asking
- We overlook just how large a role we all play--and by 'we' I mean society--in determining who makes it and who doesn't. All
- Our first impressions are generated by our experiences and our environment, which means that we can change our first impressions . . . by changing… Change