Malcolm Gladwell

People assume when my hair is long that I am a lot cooler than I actually am. I am not opposed to this misconception, by the way, but it is a misconception.

Malcolm Gladwell

People in great institutions are occasionally credulous.

Malcolm Gladwell

Policy is driven by more than politics, however. It is equally driven by ideas.

Malcolm Gladwell

Practice isn’t the thing you do once you’re good. It’s the thing you do that makes you good.

Malcolm Gladwell

Rarely do we stop and consider whether the most prestigious of institutions is always in our best interest.

Malcolm Gladwell

Re-reading is much underrated. I’ve read The Spy Who Came in from the Cold once every five years since I was 15. I only started to understand it the third time.

Malcolm Gladwell

Since becoming a journalist, each time I engage with subjects I become more radicalized.

Malcolm Gladwell

Snap judgments are, first of all, enormously quick: they rely on the thinnest slices of experience. But they are also unconscious.

Malcolm Gladwell

Some pretend to be rich, yet have nothing; others pretend to be poor, yet have great wealth.

Malcolm Gladwell

Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard for twenty-two minutes to make sense of something that most people would give up on after thirty seconds.

Malcolm Gladwell