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.

My rule is that if I interview someone, they should never read what I have to say about them and regret having given me the interview.

My rule is that if I interview someone, they should never read what I have to say about them and regret having given me the interview.

Malcolm Gladwell

So, it's a very, you know - maybe we're wrong in - you know, we go around thinking the innovator is the person who's first to kind of conceive of something. And maybe the innovation process continues down the line to the second and the third and the fourth entrant into a field.

Malcolm Gladwell

It's very hard to find someone who's successful and dislikes what they do.

It's very hard to find someone who's successful and dislikes what they do.

Malcolm Gladwell

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

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

Malcolm Gladwell

A handicap is like trying to race and you have a ten pound weight stuck to your waist. That is a handicap.

A handicap is like trying to race and you have a ten pound weight stuck to your waist. That is a handicap.

Malcolm Gladwell

Books about spies and traitors - and the congressional hearings that follow the exposure of traitors - generally assume that false-negative errors are much worse than false-positive errors.

Books about spies and traitors - and the congressional hearings that follow the exposure of traitors - generally assume that false-negative errors are much worse than false-positive errors.

Malcolm Gladwell

We should be firing bad teachers.

We should be firing bad teachers.

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

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 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

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