Malcolm Gladwell

I would say first of all, anyone who wants to challenge the status quo always gets that response. Ninety percent of the time, that’s just bull. That’s just the way in which people choose to prop up their own privilege or their own particular position. So mostly I shrug it off.

Malcolm Gladwell

I wrote my first book when I was in my late thirties.

Malcolm Gladwell

I’m in the storytelling business, and so you’re always drawn to the unusual. And early on, I discovered that’s the easiest way to tell stories. If you come up through a newspaper as I did, your whole goal is to get a story on the front page, and you only get something on the front page if it’s unusual

Malcolm Gladwell

I’m just trying to say that it should reassure us that the inevitable traumas of being human do end up producing some good. Otherwise, the human condition is overwhelmingly depressing.

Malcolm Gladwell

I’m someone who can provide an intellectual framework, but I can’t tell people who are trying to sell Product X how to do that because I don’t know, and I would be faking it if I attempted to step into that role.

Malcolm Gladwell

I’m totally engaging in cultural stereotyping, no question about it. But I think it’s ok because I’m doing it for a reason, for a good reason.

Malcolm Gladwell

If the two countries went to war and Canada chose to fight unconventionally, history would suggest that you ought to put your money on Canada.

Malcolm Gladwell

If we are to learn to improve the quality of the decisions we make, we need to accept the mysterious nature of our snap judgments.

Malcolm Gladwell

If we want to, say, develop schools in disadvantaged communities that can successfully counteract the poisonous atmosphere of their surrounding neighborhoods, this tells us that we’re probably better off building lots of little schools than one or two big ones.

Malcolm Gladwell

If you are going to do something truly innovative, you have to be someone who does not value social approval. You can’t need social approval to go forward. Otherwise, how would you ever do the thing that you are doing?

Malcolm Gladwell