Top 66 Quotes by Malcolm Gladwell

About Malcolm Gladwell

These are some quotes by Canadian author Malcolm Gladwell Author, who was born on September 3, 1963.

If you're last in your class at Harvard, it doesn't feel like you're a good student, even though you really are. It's not smart for everyone to want to go to a great school.

If you're last in your class at Harvard, it doesn't feel like you're a good student, even though you really are. It's not smart for everyone to want to go to a great school.

Malcolm Gladwell

The best example of how impossible it will be for Major League Baseball to crack down on steroids is the fact that baseball and the media are still talking about the problem as 'steroids.'

The best example of how impossible it will be for Major League Baseball to crack down on steroids is the fact that baseball and the media are still talking about the problem as 'steroids.'

Malcolm Gladwell

People assume when my hair is long that I am a lot cooler than I actually am. I am not opposed to this misconception, by the way, but it is a misconception.

People assume when my hair is long that I am a lot cooler than I actually am. I am not opposed to this misconception, by the way, but it is a misconception.

Malcolm Gladwell

I have never read any Tolstoy. I felt badly about this until I read a Bill Simmons column where he confessed that he'd never seen 'The Big Lebowski.' Simmons, it should be pointed out, has seen everything. He said that everyone needs to have skipped at least one great cultural touchstone.

Malcolm Gladwell

If you're smarter than me, you shouldn't be reading my books.

If you're smarter than me, you shouldn't be reading my books.

Malcolm Gladwell

My mother read me biblical stories at night.

My mother read me biblical stories at night.

Malcolm Gladwell

The two contemporary writers whom I consider as role models are Janet Malcolm and Michael Lewis.

The two contemporary writers whom I consider as role models are Janet Malcolm and Michael Lewis.

Malcolm Gladwell

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

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

Malcolm Gladwell

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.

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

I try to be unafraid of making a fool of myself.

I try to be unafraid of making a fool of myself.

Malcolm Gladwell

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