Malcolm Gladwell

A woman who walks away from the promise of power finds the strength to forgive – and saves her friendship, her marriage, and her sanity. The world is turned upside down.

Malcolm Gladwell

Activism that challenges the status quo, that attacks deeply rooted problems, is not for the faint of heart.

Malcolm Gladwell

Age-class running, as you know, is completely unreliable. It’s based on this artificial thing, which is that people who are the same age have the same level of physical maturity. Which just isn’t true.

Malcolm Gladwell

All my books are optimistic!

Malcolm Gladwell

All positive traits, states, and experiences have costs that at high levels may begin to outweigh their benefits.

Malcolm Gladwell

All the outliers we’ve looked at so far were the beneficiaries of some kind of unusual opportunity. Lucky breaks don’t seem like the exception with software billionaires and rock bands and star athletes. They seem like the rule.

Malcolm Gladwell

An incredibly high percentage of successful entrepreneurs are dyslexic. That’s one of the little-known facts.

Malcolm Gladwell

An innate gift and a certain amount of intelligence are important, but what really pays is ordinary experience.

Malcolm Gladwell

Any fool can spend money. But to earn it and save it and defer gratification – then you learn to value it differently.

Malcolm Gladwell

Anyone who has ever scanned the bookshelves of a new girlfriend or boyfriend- or peeked inside his or her medicine cabinet- understands this implicitly; you can learn as much – or more – from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a public face.

Malcolm Gladwell