Malcolm Gladwell

No one – not rock stars, not professional athletes, not software billionaires, and not even geniuses – ever makes it alone

Malcolm Gladwell

Our ability to succeed at what we do is powerfully bound up with where we’re from, and being a good pilot and coming from a high-power distance culture is a difficult mix.

Malcolm Gladwell

Our first impressions are generated by our experiences and our environment, which means that we can change our first impressions… by changing the experiences that comprise those impressions.

Malcolm Gladwell

Our intuitions, as humans, aren’t always very good. Changes that happen really suddenly, on the strength of the most minor of input, can be deeply confusing.

Malcolm Gladwell

People are experience-rich and theory-poor.

Malcolm Gladwell

Performance ought to improve with experience, and pressure is an obstacle that the diligent can overcome.

Malcolm Gladwell

Poverty is not deprivation, it is isolation.

Malcolm Gladwell

Sometimes constraints actually create success. Not being able to swim made me run. And running taught me the discipline I needed as a writer.

Malcolm Gladwell

Sometimes the most modest changes can bring about enormous effects.

Malcolm Gladwell

That is the paradox of the epidemic: that in order to create one contagious movement, you often have to create many small movements first.

Malcolm Gladwell