785 Quotes by Malcolm Gladwell

The kinds of errors that cause plane crashes are invariably errors of teamwork and communication.

The goal of storytelling should be to make stories as ubiquitous as music.

I hope I have encouraged people in business to expand the way they make sense of human behavior.

If you want to bring a fundamental change in people's belief and behavior...you need to create a community around them, where those new beliefs can be practiced and expressed and nurtured.

Success is not a function of individual talent. It's the steady accumulation of advantages. It's bound up in so many other broader circumstantial, environmental, historical, and cultural factors.

If you take away the gift of reading, you create the gift of listening.

The hope with Tipping Point was it would help the reader understand that real change was possible. With Blink, I wanted to get people to take the enormous power of their intuition seriously. My wish with Outliers is that it makes us understand how much of a group project success is. When outliers become outliers it is not just because of their own efforts. It's because of the contributions of lots of different people and lots of different circumstances.

Sometimes constraints actually create success. Not being able to swim made me run. And running taught me the discipline I needed as a writer.

If you're smarter than me, you shouldn't be reading my books.