785 Quotes by Malcolm Gladwell

There's this powerful phrase in the legal world, "Difficult cases make bad law." The exception is the difficult case. You can't generalize them by definition. So although they are fascinating, they don't solve any problem because they're so one of a kind.

The world is not a meritocracy, as much as we may like to pretend that it is. And we have a long way to go before we really reward people based on their own merit.

A lot of what is most beautiful about the world arises from struggle.

I became convinced that knowing lots of people was kind of skill, something that the diligent can overcome.

Asian culture has a profoundly different relationship to work. It rewards people who are persistent.

Many people with dyslexia truly suffer, and their lives are worse off for having had that disability.

People who bring transformative change have courage, know how to re-frame the problem and have a sense of urgency.

The 10,000-hours rule says that if you look at any kind of cognitively complex field, from playing chess to being a neurosurgeon, we see this incredibly consistent pattern that you cannot be good at that unless you practice for 10,000 hours, which is roughly ten years, if you think about four hours a day.

Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard.