Quotes About Gladwell

mediocre people find their way into positions of authority...because when it comes to even the most important positions, our selection decisions are a good deal less rational than we think.

No amount of observations of white swans can allow the inference that all swans are white, but the observation of a single black swan is sufficient to refute that conclusion.

Defaulting to truth is a problem. It lets spies and con artists roam free.

The fatalism of Russian peasant proverbs is contrasted with the self-reliance of Chinese ones by

University of Hawaii Press, 1983; The Happiest Man: The Life of Louis Borgenicht (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1942). Used by permission of Lindy Friedman Sobel and Alice Friedman Holzman. The publisher is not responsible for websites (or their content) that are not owned by the publisher. ISBN 978-0-316-04034-1 E3

and unruly. Adversaries were sometimes in T-shirts, eating watermelon or sharing a bottle of scotch. In rare cases

Mission with LeMay

would listen to the radio on Sundays as the announcer read the comics aloud, and he would follow along on his own until he had

But MacCurdy's idea about near and remote misses suggests something quite different—that courage is in some sense acquired.

Heath wrote up his findings in a now-famous article for the Quarterly Journal of Studies on Alcohol.

with his trademark counterintuitive logic how the habits of highly successful people pale in

adolescencia del arte occidental».

So, while our focus will veer away from The Tipping Point's turf, we want to pay tribute to Gladwell for the word "stickiness." It stuck.

In 2000, Gladwell wrote a brilliant book called The Tipping Point, which examined the forces that cause social phenomena to "tip," or make the leap from small groups to big groups