785 Quotes by Malcolm Gladwell

In cross-country skiing, athletes propel themselves over distances of ten and twenty miles - a physical challenge that places intense demands on the ability of their red blood cells to deliver oxygen to their muscles.

Incompetence is certainty in the absence of expertise. Overconfidence is certainty in the presence of expertise.

When people in authority want the rest of us to behave, it matters-first and foremost-how they behave.

The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness - in the service of perfection.

If you are going to do something truly innovative, you have to be someone who does not value social approval. You can't need social approval to go forward. Otherwise, how would you ever do the thing that you are doing?

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 in the face of the right kind of impetus.

The values of the world we inhabit and the people we surround ourselves with have a profound effect on who we are.

If you go to an elite school where the other students in your class are all really brilliant, you run the risk of mistakenly believing yourself to not be a good student.

Anyone who knows the marketing world knows that ideas come and go, and people latch onto things and think of them as a kind of solution....