Malcolm Gladwell

I try to be unafraid of making a fool of myself.

Malcolm Gladwell

I’m a lot more interested in people than I used to be. I used to be most interested in abstract ideas, and people were an afterthought, but that’s changed a bit.

Malcolm Gladwell

I’m convinced that ideas and behaviors and new products move through a population very much like a disease does.

Malcolm Gladwell

I’ve always been baffled by how much we over-rate the statistically insignificant differences that separate competitors at the top end of the distribution.

Malcolm Gladwell

I’ve had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I’ve always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.

Malcolm Gladwell

Ideas and products and messages and behaviors spread just like viruses do.

Malcolm Gladwell

If my books appear to a reader to be oversimplified, then you shouldn’t read them: You’re not the audience!

Malcolm Gladwell

If you play an audiotape of a yawn to blind people, they’ll yawn too.

Malcolm Gladwell

In order to make somebody laugh, you have to be interesting, and in order to be interesting, you have to do things that are mean. Comedy comes out of anger, and interesting comes out of angry; otherwise there is no conflict.

Malcolm Gladwell

Incompetence annoys me. Overconfidence terrifies me.

Malcolm Gladwell