Quotes by Malcolm Gladwell
“There is a set of advantages that have to do with material resources, and there is a set of advantages that have to do with the absence of material resources—and the reason underdogs win is that the latter is sometimes every bit the equal of the former.”— Malcolm Gladwell
“Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good.”— Malcolm Gladwell
“The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire.”— Malcolm Gladwell
“The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter.”— Malcolm Gladwell
“We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We're a bit too quick to come up with explanations for things we don't really have an explanation for.”— Malcolm Gladwell
“Truly successful decision-making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking.”— Malcolm Gladwell
“It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think.”— Malcolm Gladwell
“Good writing does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade. It succeeds or fails on the strength of its ability to engage you, to make you think, to give you a glimpse of someone else's head.”— Malcolm Gladwell
“We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don't always appreciate their mysterious power.”— Malcolm Gladwell
“Insight is not a lightbulb that goes off in our heads. It is a flickering candle that can easily be snuffed out.”— Malcolm Gladwell
“An innovator is one who sees what everyone else has seen, and thinks what no one else has thought.”— Malcolm Gladwell
“Courage is not something that you already have that makes you brave when the tough times start. Courage is what you earn when you’ve been through the tough times and you discover they aren’t so tough after all.”— Malcolm Gladwell