785 Quotes by Malcolm Gladwell

People are ruined by challenged economic lives. But they’re ruined by wealth as well because they lose their ambition and they lose their pride and they lose their sense of self-worth. It’s difficult at both ends of the spectrum. There’s some place in the middle which probably works best of all.

The typical accident involves seven consecutive human errors. One.

Without persistence, principles are meaningless. Because one day your dream may come true. And if you cannot keep that dream alive in the interim, then who are you?

The point about Connectors is that by having a foot in so many different worlds, they have the effect of bringing them all together.

If you’re in business it’s both a promise and a warning. It says that sometimes little things can cause some little guy to have an overnight success.

You’re in a situation where you have two very important responsibilities that both have a deadline that is impossible to meet. You cannot accomplish both. How do you handle that situation?

When you’re an underdog, you’re forced to try things you would never otherwise have attempted.

An incredibly high percentage of successful entrepreneurs are dyslexic. That’s one of the little-known facts.

If you are going to do something truly innovative, you have to be someone who does not value social approval. You can’t need social approval to go forward. Otherwise, how would you ever do the thing that you are doing?