785 Quotes by Malcolm Gladwell

There is a simple way to package information that, under the right circumstances, can make it irresistible. All you have to do is find it.

I have profoundly mixed feelings about the Affordable Care Act. What I love about it is its impulse. It attempts to deal with this intractable problem in American health care life, which is that a significant portion of the population does not have access to quality medical care.

Look at the world around you. It may seem like an immovable, implacable place. It is not. With the slightest push - in just the right place - it can be tipped.

I write my books to challenge my own feelings and theories. Perhaps most surprising was what I learned about rice farming. It was really interesting to think of how different Asian and Western cultures are as a result of the kinds of agricultural practices that our ancestors used for thousands of years. The life of a Chinese peasant in the Middle Ages was so dramatically different from the life of a European peasant - night and day different.

There is an important idea in psychology: The 'just world theory,' which says that it is very important for us to convince ourselves that the world is just and things happen for a reason. That there is some elemental fairness in everything, which creates the illusion of justice.

I think that persistence and stubbornness and hard work are probably, at the end of the day, more important than the willingness to take a risk.

As a writer, the best mindset is to be unafraid.

Outlier are those who have been given opportunities-- -and who have had the strength and presence of mind to seize them.

We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don't always appreciate their fragility.