Quotes from Malcolm Gladwell

created a powerful, protective social structure capable of insulating them from the pressures of the modern world. The Rosetans were

For unto everyone that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance. But from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath." — Matthew 25:29

the United States' population is ten times the size of Canada's. If the two countries went to war and Canada chose to fight unconventionally, history would suggest that you ought to put your money on Canada.

blocks north of the Skadden, Arps headquarters in midtown Manhattan are the offices of Joe Flom's great rival, the law firm generally regarded as the finest in the world. It is headquartered in the prestigious office building known as Black Rock. To get hired

El hombre razonable se adapta al mundo; el irrazonable insiste en que el mundo se adapte a él. Por este motivo, todo progreso depende del hombre irrazonable».

This person will have been born in a

Good writing does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade. Not the kind of writing that you'll find in this book, anyway. It succeeds or fails on the strength of its ability to engage you, to make you think, to give you a glimpse into someone else's head — even if in the end you conclude that someone else's head is not a place you'd really like to be.

In reality, the very thing that gave the giant his size was also the source of his greatest weakness. There is an important lesson in that for battles with all kinds of giants. The powerful and the strong are not always what they seem.

Goliath was blind to his approach—and then he was down, too big and slow and blurry-eyed to comprehend the way the tables had been turned. All these years, we've been telling these kinds of stories wrong. David and Goliath is about getting them right.

Modern systems, Perrow argues, are made up of thousands of parts, all of which interrelate in ways that are impossible to anticipate. Given that complexity, he says, it is almost inevitable that some combinations of minor failures will eventually amount to something catastrophic.

Cultural legacies are powerful forces. They have deep roots and long lives.

the greater the sacrifice you make in the service of that conviction—the more resistant you will be to evidence that suggests that you are mistaken. You don't give up. You double down.

Outliers are those who have been given opportunities — and who have had the strength and presence of mind to seize them.

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.

Broncos hockey game in southern Alberta, a team that played in the same Major Junior A league as the Vancouver Giants

To appreciate the power of epidemics, we have to abandon this expectation about proportionality. We need to prepare ourselves for the possibility that sometimes big changes follow from small events, and that sometimes these changes can happen very quickly.

Write down as many different uses that you can think of for the following objects: a brick a blanket This is an example of what's called a "divergence test

When I saw the kouros for the first time, he said, I felt as though there was a glass between me and the work.

Those immigrants, in turn, sent word back to Roseto about the promise of the New World, and soon one

Who we are cannot be separated from where we're from —

If you think about the class-size puzzle this way, then what seems baffling starts to make a little more sense.

La herencia cultural importa; y una vez que hemos visto el sorprendente efecto de cosas tales como la distancia al poder o el hecho de poder expresarse en un cuarto de segundo en lugar de invertir un tercio o una mitad, no es difícil preguntarse qué otras herencias culturales tendrán un impacto sobre nuestras tareas intelectuales del siglo XXI.

his becoming a true outlier, we have to know a lot more about him than that.

Louis and Regina found a tiny apartment on Eldridge Street, on Manhattan's Lower East Side, for $8 a month. Louis then took to the streets, looking for work. He saw peddlers and fruit sellers and sidewalks crammed with pushcarts. The noise and activity and energy dwarfed what he had known in the Old World. He was first overwhelmed, then invigorated. He went