Malcolm Gladwell
Malcolm Gladwell
Malcolm Timothy Gladwell, CMis an English-born Canadian journalist, bestselling author, and speaker. He has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1996. He has written five books, The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, Outliers: The Story of Success, What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures, a collection of his journalism, and David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants. All five books were...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth3 September 1963
CountryCanada
You don't manage a social wrong. You should be ending it.
What does it say about a society that it devotes more care and patience to the selection of those who handle its money than of those who handle its children?
Economists often talk about the 80/20 Principle, which is the idea that in any situation roughly 80 percent of the “work” will be done by 20 percent of the participants. In most societies, 20 percent of criminals commit 80 percent of crimes. Twenty percent of motorists cause 80 percent of all accidents. Twenty percent of beer drinkers drink 80 percent of all beer. When it comes to epidemics, though, this disproportionality becomes even more extreme: a tiny percentage of people do the majority of the work.
Of the great entrepreneurs of this era, people will have forgotten Steve Jobs.
The nature of athletic celebrity is increasingly moving away from the actual field of play.
Consistency is the most overrated of all human virtues... I'm someone who changes his mind all the time.
There's no idea that can't be explained to a thoughtful 14-year-old. If the thoughtful 14-year-old doesn't get it, it is your fault, not the 14-year-old's.
In the act of tearing something apart, you lose its meaning.
Change your mind about something significant every day.
If your parents are billionaires, that might actually be an obstacle to your own happiness and self-development. If you go to Oxford or Harvard, that might actually thwart your desire to graduate with a science or math degree.
A prediction, in a field where prediction is not possible, is no more than a prejudice.
Lesson Number One: The Importance of Being Jewish
What is learned out of hard work and trial is inevitably more powerful than what is learned easily.
Ideas and products and messages and behaviors spread just like viruses do.