Consistency is the most overrated of all human virtues… I’m someone who changes his mind all the time. – Malcolm Gladwell
Countless religious innovators over the years have played the game of establishing an identity for themselves by accentuating their otherness. – Malcolm Gladwell
The most influential thinker, in my life, has been the psychologist Richard Nisbett. He basically gave me my view of the world. – Malcolm Gladwell
What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don’t judge a book by its cover. We believe that we are always better off gathering as much information as possible and spending as much time as possible in deliberation. – Malcolm Gladwell
I’ve had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I’ve always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories. – Malcolm Gladwell
I’m a lot more interested in people than I used to be. I used to be most interested in abstract ideas, and people were an afterthought, but that’s changed a bit. – Malcolm Gladwell
We all assume that if you’re weak and poor, you’re never going to win. In fact, the real world is full of examples where the exact opposite happens, where the weak win and the strong screw up. – 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. – Malcolm Gladwell
The fact of being an underdog changes people in ways that we often fail to appreciate. It opens doors and creates opportunities and enlightens and permits things that might otherwise have seemed unthinkable. – Malcolm Gladwell
I don’t want a door bell. I don’t want anyone ringing my door bell… seems to be intrusive. They can call me on their cell phones. – Malcolm Gladwell
Age-class running, as you know, is completely unreliable. It’s based on this artificial thing, which is that people who are the same age have the same level of physical maturity. Which just isn’t true. – Malcolm Gladwell