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Malcolm Gladwell Quotes

I have profoundly mixed feelings about the Affordable Care Act. What I love about it is its impulse. It attempts to deal with this intractable problem in American health care life, which is that a significant portion of the population does not have access to quality medical care.

– Malcolm Gladwell

Part of me thinks that innovation, real innovation in health care delivery, needs to happen from the bottom to the top.

– Malcolm Gladwell

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

– Malcolm Gladwell

When you write about sports, you’re allowed to engage in mischief. Nothing is at stake.

– Malcolm Gladwell

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

– Malcolm Gladwell

I wrote my first book when I was in my late thirties.

– Malcolm Gladwell

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

An aggressive drug-testing program would cut down on certain abuses, but its never going to catch everyone – or even close to everyone.

– Malcolm Gladwell

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

– Malcolm Gladwell

My books have contradictions all the time – and people are fine with that.

– Malcolm Gladwell

If I was President of the United States, I’d rather be right than interesting. If I was CEO of a company, I’d rather be right than interesting. But I’m a journalist – what journalist would rather be right than interesting?

– Malcolm Gladwell

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

– Malcolm Gladwell

You walk into the class in second grade. You can’t read. What are you going to do if you’re going to make it? You identify the smart kid. You make friends with him. You sit next to him. You grow a team around you. You delegate your work to others. You learn how to talk your way out of a tight spot.

– Malcolm Gladwell

Does that mean we should give up? Probably. But there are two issues worth considering. The first is – is it really true that drugs destroy the integrity of the game?

– Malcolm Gladwell

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

The most common form of giantism is a condition called acromegaly, and acromegaly is caused by a benign tumor on your pituitary gland that causes an overproduction of human growth hormone. And throughout history, many of the most famous giants have all had acromegaly.

– Malcolm Gladwell

It is useful to compare the Branch Davidians with the Mormons of the mid-nineteenth century. The Mormons were vilified in those years in large part because Joseph Smith believed in polygamy.

– Malcolm Gladwell

Shallow communities are relatively easy to build.

– Malcolm Gladwell

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

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

I am a story-teller, and I look to academic research… for ways of augmenting story-telling.

– Malcolm Gladwell

An incredibly high percentage of successful entrepreneurs are dyslexic. That’s one of the little-known facts.

– 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

As a writer, the best mindset is to be unafraid.

– Malcolm Gladwell

You don’t train someone for all of those years of medical school and residency, particularly people who want to help others optimize their physical and psychological health, and then have them run a claims-processing operation for insurance companies.

– Malcolm Gladwell

A runner needs not just to be skinny but – more specifically – to have skinny calves and ankles, because every extra pound carried on your extremities costs more than a pound carried on your torso. That’s why shaving even a few ounces off a pair of running shoes can have a significant effect.

– Malcolm Gladwell

If you’re skinny and you can’t play hockey in Canada, you aren’t left with a lot of options. I was left with running.

– 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.’

– Malcolm Gladwell

If you are going to do something truly innovative, you have to be someone who does not value social approval. You can’t need social approval to go forward. Otherwise, how would you ever do the thing that you are doing?

– Malcolm Gladwell

The great accomplishment of Jobs’s life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies – his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness – in the service of perfection.

– Malcolm Gladwell

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