Author: Malcolm Gladwell

Quotes

We aren't, as human beings, very good at acting in our best interest.

We aren't, as human beings, very good at acting in our best interest.

- Malcolm Gladwell

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

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

- Malcolm Gladwell

People in great institutions are occasionally credulous.

People in great institutions are occasionally credulous.

- Malcolm Gladwell

The most influential thinker, in my life, has been the psychologist Richard Nisbett. He basically gave me my view of the world.

The most influential thinker, in my life, has been the psychologist Richard Nisbett. He basically gave me my view of the world.

- Malcolm Gladwell

If you think advantage lies in resources, then you think the best educational system is the one that spends the most money.

If you think advantage lies in resources, then you think the best educational system is the one that spends the most money.

- Malcolm Gladwell

Consistency is the most overrated of all human virtues... I'm someone who changes his mind all the time.

Consistency is the most overrated of all human virtues... I'm someone who changes his mind all the time.

- Malcolm Gladwell

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

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

- Malcolm Gladwell

The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct.

The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct.

- Malcolm Gladwell

If you go to an elite school where the other students in your class are all really brilliant, you run the risk of mistakenly believing yourself to not be a good student.

If you go to an elite school where the other students in your class are all really brilliant, you run the risk of mistakenly believing yourself to not be a good student.

- Malcolm Gladwell

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