Malcolm Gladwell

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

- Malcolm Gladwell

"The act of facing overwhelming odds produces greatness and beauty."

- Malcolm Gladwell

"Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning. Once it does, it becomes the kind of thing that makes you grab your wife around the waist and dance a jig."

- Malcolm Gladwell

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

- Malcolm Gladwell

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

- Malcolm Gladwell

"The kinds of errors that cause plane crashes are invariably errors of teamwork and communication."

- Malcolm Gladwell

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

- Malcolm Gladwell

"We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction."

- Malcolm Gladwell

"Truly successful decision-making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking."

- Malcolm Gladwell

"If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires."

- Malcolm Gladwell

"The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper and reimagines the world."

- Malcolm Gladwell

"Achievement is talent plus preparation."

- Malcolm Gladwell

"[Suicide rates in 20th century Britain] goes way up when town gas first makes its way into British homes and comes plunging down as the changeover to natural gas begins in the late 1960s. In that 10 year window as town gas was being slowly phased out, thousands of deaths were prevented."

- Malcolm Gladwell