Malcolm Gladwell Quotes

Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good.

If everyone has to think outside the box, maybe it is the box that needs fixing.

That's your responsibility as a person, as a human being - to constantly be updating your positions on as many things as possible. And if you don't contradict yourself on a regular basis, then you're not thinking.

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

Often a sign of expertise is noticing what doesn't happen.

It takes ten thousand hours to truly master anything. Time spent leads to experience; experience leads to proficiency; and the more proficient you are the more valuable you'll be.

Instead of thinking about talent as something that you acquire, talent should be thought of as something that you develop.

Success has to do with deliberate practice. Practice must be focused, determined, and in an environment where there's feedback.

If you don't contradict yourself on a regular basis, then you're not thinking.

Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard.

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

Our acquaintances—not our friends—are our greatest source of new ideas and information. the internet lets us exploit the power of these kinds of distant connections with marvellous efficiency.

Change your mind about something significant every day.

Sometimes the most modest changes can bring about enormous effects.

The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter.

It is those who are successful, in other words, who are most likely to be given the kinds of special opportunities that lead to further success.

The difference isn't resources, it's attitude.

You can't concentrate on doing anything if you are thinking, “What's gonna happen if it doesn't go right?

Success is not a function of individual talent. It's the steady accumulation of advantages. It's bound up in so many other broader circumstantial, environmental, historical, and cultural factors.

No one who can rise before dawn three hundred sixty days a year fails to make his family rich.

People don't rise from nothing.

The successful are those who have been given opportunities.

Courage is what you earn when you've been through the tough times and you discover they aren't so tough after all.

People who bring transformative change have courage, know how to re-frame the problem and have a sense of urgency.

Acquaintances represent a source of social power, and the more acquaintances you have the more powerful you are.