Quotes from Malcolm Gladwell

Iss?z bölgelerde ÅŸiddet ekonomik kazan?mla ilgili deÄŸil. KiÅŸisel. Onurunuz için sava??yorsunuz.

If you want to get a good idea of whether I'd make a good employee, drop by my house one day and take a look around.

Yapt???m?z ÅŸeyde baÅŸar?l? olma yeteneÄŸimiz, nereden geldiÄŸimize güçlü biçimde baÄŸl?d?r.

It is those who are successful, in other words, who are most likely to be given the kinds of spe­cial opportunities that lead to further success.

iÅŸleriyle aralar?ndaki iliÅŸkide dönüÅŸüm yaratma f?rsat?.

There is something about the idea of coupling—of the notion that a stranger's behavior is tightly connected to place and context—that eludes us (p. 311).

The conviction that we know others better than they know us—and that we may have insights about them they lack (but not vice versa)—leads us to talk when we would do well to listen and to be less patient than we ought to be when others express the conviction that they are the ones who are being misunderstood or judged

We're much better than chance at correctly identifying the students who are telling the truth. But we're much worse than chance at correctly identifying the students who are lying. We go through all those videos, and we guess—"true, true, true"—which means we get most of the truthful interviews right, and most of the liars wrong. We have a default to truth: our operating assumption is that the people we are dealing with are honest.

We have no choice but to talk to strangers in our modern, borderless world. We aren't living in villages anymore. Police officers have to stop people they don't know. Intelligence officers have to deal with deception and uncertainty. Young people want to go to parties explicitly to meet strangers... Yet at this most necessary of tasks we are inept. We think we can transform the stranger, without cost or sacrifice, into the familiar and the known, and we can't (p. 342).

But with strangers, we're intolerant of emotional responses that fall outside expectations.

To build a better world we need to replace the patchwork of lucky breaks and arbitrary advantages that today determine success...with a society that provides opportunities for all.

We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.

I don't golf. I've never golfed. I will never golf.

There is an important idea in psychology: The 'just world theory,' which says that it is very important for us to convince ourselves that the world is just and things happen for a reason. That there is some elemental fairness in everything, which creates the illusion of justice.

You don't want to be first, right? You want to be second or third. You don't want to be - Facebook is not the first in social media. They're the third, right? Similarly, you know, if you look at Steve Jobs' history, he's never been first.

So, it's a very, you know - maybe we're wrong in - you know, we go around thinking the innovator is the person who's first to kind of conceive of something. And maybe the innovation process continues down the line to the second and the third and the fourth entrant into a field.

The issue isn't the accuracy of the bombs you have, it's how you use the bombs you have - and more importantly, whether you ought to use bombs at all.

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

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

If you take away the gift of reading, you create the gift of listening.

In the government's eyes, the Branch Davidians were a threat.

I recently talked to an eighteen-year-old - a huge FIFA fan - and realized that he spends more time playing the FIFA video game than he does watching actual FIFA games.

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

The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.