785 Quotes by Malcolm Gladwell

It’s just strange to think that so much of our enjoyment from sports comes from the elevation of arbitrary differences.

Having a parent incarcerated increases a child’s chances of juvenile delinquency between 300 and 400 percent; it increases the odds of a serious psychiatric disorder by 250 percent.

They were unconvinced of the power of giants.

Transparency is the idea that people’s behavior and demeanor – the way they represent themselves on the outside – provides an authentic and reliable window into the way they feel on the inside.

This is the gift of training and expertise – the ability to extract an enormous amount of meaningful information from the very thinnest slice of experience.

But the better answer is that Hotchkiss has simply fallen into the trap that wealthy people and wealthy institutions and wealthy countries – all Goliaths – too often fall into: the school assumes that the kinds of things that wealth can buy always translate into real-world advantages.

If you paid careful attention to the structure and format of your material, you could dramatically enhance stickiness.

Don’t depend on heaven for food, but on your own two hands carrying the load.

It’s a rags-to-riches story, and everything we’ve learned so far from hockey players and software billionaires and the Termites suggests that success doesn’t happen that way. Successful people don’t do it alone. Where they come from matters. They’re products of particular places and environments.