785 Quotes by Malcolm Gladwell

If there is one thing I learned by reading Epstein's "The Sports Gene" it is that world-class athletes are, by definition, abnormal: that is, the kind of person capable of competing at that level is necessarily very different from the rest of us physiologically. They are outliers.

Without the New York Times, there is no blog community. They'd have nothing to blog about.

If you're last in your class at Harvard, it doesn't feel like you're a good student, even though you really are. It's not smart for everyone to want to go to a great school.

If a window is broken and left unrepaired, people walking by will conclude that no one cares and no one is in charge. Soon, more windows will be broken, and the sense of anarchy will spread from the building to the street on which it faces, sending a signal that anything goes.

Poverty is not deprivation, it is isolation.

In the government's eyes, the Branch Davidians were a threat.

Why are man hole covers around?" If you don't knwo the answer to the questions, you're not smart enough to work at microsoft

Instead of thinking about talent as something that you acquire, talent should be thought of as something that you develop.

I remember as a kid watching one of the Olympic games, and I was cheering for a big track athlete. He was the favorite to win, and he lost. I realized in that moment the pain he felt was so much greater than the pain that those who never thought they were going to win would have felt had they lost.