785 Quotes by Malcolm Gladwell

Happiness, in one sense, is a function of how closely our world conforms to the infinite variety of human preference.

Innovation-the heart of the knowledge economy-is fundamentally social.

From medieval tapestries, we know that slingers were capable of hitting birds in flight. They were incredibly accurate.

You don't manage a social wrong. You should be ending it.

There is more going on beneath the surface than we think, and more going on in little, finite moments of time than we would guess.

The conventional explanation for Jewish success, of course, is that Jews come from a literate, intellectual culture. They are famously "the people of the book." There is surely something to that. But it wasn't just the children of rabbis who went to law school. It was the children of garment workers. And their critical advantage in climbing the professional ladder wasn't the intellectual rigor you get from studying the Talmud. It was the practical intelligence and savvy you get from watching your father sell aprons on Hester Street.

My highest compliment is when someone comes up to me to say, "My 14-year-old daughter, or my 12-year-old son read your book and loved it." I cannot conceive of a greater compliment than that - to write something that as an adult I find satisfying, but also that manages to reach a curious 13- or 14-year-old.

What does it say about a society that it devotes more care and patience to the selection of those who handle its money than of those who handle its children?

I'm convinced that ideas and behaviors and new products move through a population very much like a disease does.