Malcolm Gladwell Quotes
I'm convinced that ideas and behaviors and new products move through a population very much like a disease does.
My father read Charles Dickens to us as children, and at the end of virtually every novel he would choke up and start to cry - and my father NEVER cried. It always made me love him all the more.
The nature of athletic celebrity is increasingly moving away from the actual field of play.
I think actually the marketing community is approaching a crisis: There are just too many messages competing for too little attention. That is the fundamental problem.
As a writer, I know that - you write a first draft and then put it in a drawer. The longer I can put it in a drawer, the better off I am. So I structure my writing so that things can sit.
Hard work is only a prison sentence when you lack motivation
Hard world is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning.
We talk a lot here about grit and self-control. The kids know what those words mean
A woman who walks away from the promise of power finds the strength to forgive – and saves her friendship, her marriage, and her sanity. The world is turned upside down.
Contagiousness is an unexpected property of all kinds of things.
The name given to that one dramatic moment in an epidemic when everything can change all at once is the Tipping Point.
Our first impressions are generated by our experiences and our environment, which means that we can change our first impressions . . . by changing the experiences that comprise those impressions.
The power of knowing, in that first two seconds, is not a gift given magically to a fortunate few. It is an ability that we can all cultivate for ourselves.
We form our impression not globally, by placing ourselves in the broadest possible context, but locally, by comparing ourselves to people in the same boat as ourselves.
Bad improvisers block action, often with a high degree of skill. Good improvisers develop action."(p.115)
To build a better world we need to replace the patchwork of lucky breaks and arbitrary advantages that today determine success...with a society that provides opportunities for all.
Much of what we consider valuable in our world arises out of (these) one-sided conflicts. Because the act of facing overwhelming odds, produces greatness and beauty.
The success of any kind of social epidemic is heavily dependent on the involvement of people with a particular and rare set of social gifts.
In the six degrees of separation, not all degrees are equal.
Testers for 7-Up consistently found consumers would report more lemon flavor in their product if they added 15% more yellow coloring TO THE PACKAGE.
That's like being a hockey player born on January I.
In the general American population, 3.9 percent of adult men are six foot two or taller. Among my CEO sample, almost a third were six foot two or taller.
Acquaintances, in sort, represent a source of social power, and the more acquaintances you have the more powerful you are.
The paradox of endurance sports is that an athlete can never work as hard as he wants, because if he pushes himself too far, his hematocrit will fall.
When you write about sports, you're allowed to engage in mischief. Nothing is at stake.
