51 Malcolm Gladwell Quotes for You to Enjoy

Malcolm Gladwell

Canadian Author

Born: Sep 3, 1963

Great Me People Will World You

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We need to be clear when we venerate entrepreneurs what we are venerating. They are not moral leaders. If they were moral leaders, they wouldn't be great businessmen. Malcolm Gladwell

Great Moral Entrepreneurs Clear Leaders Were Businessmen Need

My books have contradictions all the time - and people are fine with that. Malcolm Gladwell

Time People Books Fine Contradictions

I never had those dreams of making the Olympics. Never. Malcolm Gladwell

Dreams Those Never Had Making Olympics

We used to say poor people had lousy genes. Then we decided that wasn't OK, but we transferred the prejudice to upbringing. We said, 'You were neglected as a child, so you'll never make it.' That's just as pernicious. Malcolm Gladwell

You People Neglected Say OK Never Had Genes Make Said Pernicious Were Upbringing Child Lousy Just Transferred Decided Poor Poor People Then Prejudice Used

If Harvard is $60,000 and University of Toronto, where I went to school, is maybe six. So you're really telling me that education is 10 times better at Harvard than it is at University of Toronto? That seems ridiculous to me. Malcolm Gladwell

Education Me You Better School Harvard Telling Toronto Seems Times Than Six Maybe Where Really Ridiculous University

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

You Books Read Reader Audience Them Then Appear

Do you remember the wrestler Andre the Giant? Famous. He had acromegaly. Malcolm Gladwell

You Remember Giant Andre Wrestler Had He Famous

I grew up in southwestern Ontario in the heart of a Mennonite community. All my family are part of the Mennonite church. Malcolm Gladwell

Family Heart Church Community Ontario Part Up Grew

All my books are optimistic! Malcolm Gladwell

Books Optimistic

I don't understand, given the constraints physicians have in doing their job and the paperwork demanded of them, why people want to be physicians. I think we've made it very, very difficult for them to perform their job. I think that's a shame. Malcolm Gladwell

People Job Made Difficult Think Paperwork Constraints Given Physicians Shame Perform Demanded Understand Doing Very Want Them Why

All three of the great waves of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century European immigrants to America innovated. Malcolm Gladwell

Great Three Waves Nineteenth Immigrants America European

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

Government Eyes Threat Were Branch

Mainstream American society finds it easiest to be tolerant when the outsider chooses to minimize the differences that separate him from the majority. The country club opens its doors to Jews. The university welcomes African-Americans. Heterosexuals extend the privilege of marriage to the gay community. Malcolm Gladwell

Gay Marriage Country Differences Doors Club Community Society Jews Gay Community Easiest Minimize Finds Outsider Mainstream Country Club Opens Welcomes Majority Him Privilege American Separate American Society Chooses Tolerant Extend University

The paradox of endurance sports is that an athlete can never work as hard as he wants, because if he pushes himself too far, his hematocrit will fall. Malcolm Gladwell

Work Sports Will Fall Too Paradox Athlete Never Pushes He Himself Because His Endurance Wants Far Hard

When people from organizations like the World Bank descended on Third World countries, they always tried to remove obstacles to development, to reduce economic anxiety and uncertainty. Malcolm Gladwell

People Anxiety World Remove Tried Uncertainty Economic Development Countries Obstacles Like Always Reduce Bank Organizations Descended World Bank Third Third World

In my mid-adolescence, my friend Terry Martin and I became obsessed with William F. Buckley. This makes more sense when you realize that we were living in Bible Belt farming country miles from civilization. Buckley seemed impossibly exotic. Malcolm Gladwell

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

Will Never Golf

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