Quotes from Malcolm Gladwell

A handicap is like trying to race and you have a ten pound weight stuck to your waist. That is a handicap.

You walk into the class in second grade. You can't read. What are you going to do if you're going to make it? You identify the smart kid. You make friends with him. You sit next to him. You grow a team around you. You delegate your work to others. You learn how to talk your way out of a tight spot.

My mother read me biblical stories at night.

An incredibly high percentage of successful entrepreneurs are dyslexic. That's one of the little-known facts.

I don't want a door bell. I don't want anyone ringing my door bell... seems to be intrusive. They can call me on their cell phones.

I don't understand, given the constraints physicians have in doing their job and the paperwork demanded of them, why people want to be physicians. I think we've made it very, very difficult for them to perform their job. I think that's a shame.

You think it matters to the kids whether they're learning to play on a Steinway or a normal piano?

People can't do much about the fate part, but we can certainly do a lot about the man part.

There will be statues of Bill Gates across the Third World. There's a reasonable shot that - because of his money - we will cure malaria.

If we are to learn to improve the quality of the decisions we make, we need to accept the mysterious nature of our snap judgments.

understanding the true nature of instinctive decision making requires us to be forgiving of those people trapped in circumstances where good judgment is imperiled.

The Law of the Few... says that one critical factor in epidemics is the nature of the messenger.

The nature of athletic celebrity is increasingly moving away from the actual field of play.

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.

We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don't always appreciate their fragility.

That was it! The whole Redwood City philosophy was based on a willingness to try harder than anyone else.

The power of positive thinking will overcome so many things

It changes how people read you if you believe in God. It gives insight into your motivation, how you look at problems and how you deal with people.

Through embracing the diversity of humans beings, we will find a sure way to true happiness.

What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't judge a book by its cover. We believe that we are always better off gathering as much information as possible and spending as much time as possible in deliberation.

All three of the great waves of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century European immigrants to America innovated.

The fact of being an underdog changes people in ways that we often fail to appreciate. It opens doors and creates opportunities and enlightens and permits things that might otherwise have seemed unthinkable.

I am a story-teller, and I look to academic research... for ways of augmenting story-telling.

That term, 'David and Goliath,' has entered our language as a metaphor for improbable victories by some weak party over someone far stronger.