785 Quotes by Malcolm Gladwell

The excessive use of force creates legitimacy problems, and force without legitimacy leads to defiance, not submission.

That’s not because journalists know more about Japan. It’s because they knew less: they had the ability to sort through what they knew and find a pattern.

I’m a purist: I start to wrinkle my nose when the Cold War ends.

To become a success at what they did, they had to shed some part of their own identity, because the deep respect for authority that runs throughout Korean culture simply does not work in the cockpit.

I worry that track is going to enter into an impossibly complicated stage, where our understanding of the complexities of human physiology – and our ability to accentuate and exploit them – is going to make the notion of pure competition impossible.

All my books are optimistic!

The underdog winning is the romantic position.

People in great institutions are occasionally credulous.

Shallow communities are relatively easy to build.