785 Quotes by Malcolm Gladwell

The successful are those who have been given opportunities,

The people at the top don't work just harder or even much harder than everyone else. They work much, much harder.

Incompetence annoys me. Overconfidence terrifies me.

There are exceptional people out there who are capable of starting epidemics. All you have to do is find them.

My mother read me biblical stories at night.

The difference between a crime of evil and a crime of illness is the difference between a sin and a symptom.

Anyone who has ever scanned the bookshelves of a new girlfriend or boyfriend- or peeked inside his or her medicine cabinet- understands this implicitly; you can learn as much - or more - from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a public face.

What track needs to figure out: how to engage us between the races. Instead, the entire off-the-track conversation is about doping. This is how you kill a sport.

My books have contradictions all the time - and people are fine with that.