785 Quotes by Malcolm Gladwell

If you're skinny and you can't play hockey in Canada, you aren't left with a lot of options. I was left with running.

I know it sounds hard to believe, but habits laid down by our ancestors persist even after the conditions that created those habits have gone away.

I should point out that I have a picture of Asbel Kiprop as the screensaver on my phone. Is that embarrassing?

In my mid-adolescence, my friend Terry Martin and I became obsessed with William F. Buckley. This makes more sense when you realize that we were living in Bible Belt farming country miles from civilization. Buckley seemed impossibly exotic.

Humans socialize in the largest groups of all primates because we are the only animals with brains large enough to handle the complexities of that social arrangement.

A prediction, in a field where prediction is not possible, is no more than a prejudice.

The sense of possibility so necessary for success comes not just from inside us or from our parents. It comes from our time: from the particular opportunities that our place in history presents us with.

An innate gift and a certain amount of intelligence are important, but what really pays is ordinary experience.

If Harvard is $60,000 and University of Toronto, where I went to school, is maybe six. So you're really telling me that education is 10 times better at Harvard than it is at University of Toronto? That seems ridiculous to me.