Malcolm Gladwell

We prematurely write off people as failures. We are too much in awe of those who succeed and far too dismissive of those who fail.

Malcolm Gladwell

What a gifted child is, in many ways, is a gifted learner. And what a gifted adult is, is a gifted doer. And those are quite separate domains of achievement.

Malcolm Gladwell

When people in authority want the rest of us to behave, it matters-first and foremost-how they behave.

Malcolm Gladwell

When we become expert in something, our tastes grow more esoteric and complex.

Malcolm Gladwell

You can’t concentrate on doing anything if you are thinking, ‘What’s gonna happen if it doesn’t go right?’

Malcolm Gladwell

A certain property fundamentalism, having no connection to our tradition, now reigns in this culture.

Malcolm Gladwell

A handicap is like trying to race and you have a ten pound weight stuck to your waist. That is a handicap.

Malcolm Gladwell

A runner needs not just to be skinny but – more specifically – to have skinny calves and ankles, because every extra pound carried on your extremities costs more than a pound carried on your torso. That’s why shaving even a few ounces off a pair of running shoes can have a significant effect.

Malcolm Gladwell

A typical five-year-old consumes about 60 percent more ketchup than a typical forty-year-old, and the company realized that it needed to put ketchup in a bottle that a toddler could control.

Malcolm Gladwell

A vervet, in other words, is very good at processing certain kinds of vervetish information, but not so good at processing other kinds of information.

Malcolm Gladwell