785 Quotes by Malcolm Gladwell

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 particular place in history presents us with. For a young would-be lawyer, being born in the early 1930′s was a magic time, just as being born in 1955 was for a software programmer, or being born in 1835 was for an entrepreneur.

Epidemics are sensitive to the conditions and circumstances of the times and places in which they occur.

How good people’s decisions are under the fast-moving, high-stress conditions of rapid cognition is a function of training and rules and rehearsal.

The talent myth assumes that people make organizations smart. More often than not, it’s the other way around.

There is actually a significant scientific literature measuring Asian “persistence.

Success is the result of what sociologists like to call “accumulative advantage.” The.

Coupling is the idea that behaviors are linked to very specific circumstances and conditions.

We have seen,” Terman concluded, with more than a touch of disappointment, “that intellect and achievement are far from perfectly correlated.

When Tom Gau and I sat across from each other in his office, then, we almost immediately fell into physical and conversational harmony. We were dancing. Even before he attempted to persuade me with his words, he had forged a bond with me with his movements and his speech.