Malcolm Gladwell

If you go to an elite school where the other students in your class are all really brilliant, you run the risk of mistakenly believing yourself to not be a good student.

Malcolm Gladwell

If you paid careful attention to the structure and format of your material, you could dramatically enhance stickiness.

Malcolm Gladwell

If you think advantage lies in resources, then you think the best educational system is the one that spends the most money.

Malcolm Gladwell

If you’re in business it’s both a promise and a warning. It says that sometimes little things can cause some little guy to have an overnight success.

Malcolm Gladwell

If you’re last in your class at Harvard, it doesn’t feel like you’re a good student, even though you really are. It’s not smart for everyone to want to go to a great school.

Malcolm Gladwell

If you’re skinny and you can’t play hockey in Canada, you aren’t left with a lot of options. I was left with running.

Malcolm Gladwell

If you’re smarter than me, you shouldn’t be reading my books.

Malcolm Gladwell

If your parents are billionaires, that might actually be an obstacle to your own happiness and self-development. If you go to Oxford or Harvard, that might actually thwart your desire to graduate with a science or math degree.

Malcolm Gladwell

In 52 percent of crashes, the pilot at the time of the accident has been awake for twelve hours or more, meaning that he is tired and not thinking sharply.

Malcolm Gladwell

In a country that never wins anything: in Canada, if one of our athletes so much as makes the final in a World Championship, we declare a national holiday.

Malcolm Gladwell