Quotes from Malcolm Gladwell

Courage is not something that you already have that makes you brave when the tough times start. Courage is what you earn when you've been through the tough times and you discover they aren't so tough after all.

Emotion is contagious.

it would be interesting to find out what goes on in that moment when someone looks at you and draws all sorts of conclusions.

In the act of tearing something apart, you lose its meaning.

Truly successful decision-making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking.

our world requires that decisions be sourced and footnoted, and if we say how we feel, we must also be prepared to elaborate on why we feel that way...We need to respect the fact that it is possible to know without knowing why we know and accept that - sometimes - we're better off that way.

I want to convince you that these kinds of personal explanations of success don't work. People don't rise from nothing....It is only by asking where they are from that we can unravel the logic behind who succeeds and who doesn't.

If you want to bring a fundamental change in people's belief and behavior...you need to create a community around them, where those new beliefs can be practiced and expressed and nurtured.

We overlook just how large a role we all play--and by 'we' I mean society--in determining who makes it and who doesn't.

No one who can rise before dawn three hundred sixty days a year fails to make his family rich.

Father: 'Anything but journalism.' I rebelled.

Without the New York Times, there is no blog community. They'd have nothing to blog about.

For every romantic possiblity, no matter how robust, there exists at least one equal and opposite sentence, phrase, or word capable of extinguishing it.