Malcolm Gladwell

From experience, we gain a powerful gift, the ability to act instinctively, in the moment.

Malcolm Gladwell

I know it sounds hard to believe, but habits laid down by our ancestors persist even after the conditions that created those habits have gone away.

Malcolm Gladwell

I think that persistence and stubbornness and hard work are probably, at the end of the day, more important than the willingness to take a risk.

Malcolm Gladwell

If a window is broken and left unrepaired, people walking by will conclude that no one cares and no one is in charge. Soon, more windows will be broken, and the sense of anarchy will spread from the building to the street on which it faces, sending a signal that anything goes.

Malcolm Gladwell

If everyone has to think outside the box, maybe it is the box that needs fixing.

Malcolm Gladwell

If people disobey, don’t ask what is wrong with them, ask what’s wrong with their leaders.

Malcolm Gladwell

If you don’t contradict yourself on a regular basis, then you’re not thinking.

Malcolm Gladwell

If you take away the gift of reading, you create the gift of listening.

Malcolm Gladwell

It’s the rich who get the biggest tax breaks. It’s the best students who get the best teaching and most attention.

Malcolm Gladwell

It’s very hard to find someone who’s successful and dislikes what they do.

Malcolm Gladwell