785 Quotes by Malcolm Gladwell

The conventional wisdom is often wrong. Crime didn't keep soaring in the 1990s, money alone doesn't win elections, and - surprise - drinking eight glasses of water a day has never actually been shown to do a thing for your health. Conventional wisdom is often shoddily formed and devilishly difficult to see through, but it can be done.

Of the great entrepreneurs of this era, people will have forgotten Steve Jobs.

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.

We aren't, as human beings, very good at acting in our best interest.

The first person who throws the rock is a lot more radical than a hundredth person.By the time the riot has attracted a hundred people, you don't have to be nearly as much of a daredevil or a hothead or committed or any of those things to want to engage in a riot.

The nature of athletic celebrity is increasingly moving away from the actual field of play.

We vary greatly in the natural advantages that we've been given. The world's not fair

When you write about sports, you're allowed to engage in mischief. Nothing is at stake.

Sometimes [genius] is just the thing that emerges after twenty years of working at your kitchen table.