785 Quotes by Malcolm Gladwell

Mainstream American society finds it easiest to be tolerant when the outsider chooses to minimize the differences that separate him from the majority. The country club opens its doors to Jews. The university welcomes African-Americans. Heterosexuals extend the privilege of marriage to the gay community.

Performance ought to improve with experience, and pressure is an obstacle that the diligent can overcome.

All three of the great waves of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century European immigrants to America innovated.

You don't want to be first, right? You want to be second or third. You don't want to be - Facebook is not the first in social media. They're the third, right? Similarly, you know, if you look at Steve Jobs' history, he's never been first.

I don't golf. I've never golfed. I will never golf.

I am far more distress-avoidant than I am joy-seeking.

Working really hard is what successful people do...

Achievement is talent plus preparation. The problem with this view is that the closer psychologists look at the careers of the gifted, the smaller the role innate talent seems to play and the bigger the role preparation seems to play.

You can't concentrate on doing anything if you are thinking, “What's gonna happen if it doesn't go right?