There can be as much value in the blink of an eye as in months of rational analysis. - Malcolm Gladwell
Truly successful decision making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking. - Malcolm Gladwell
It is the new and different that is always most vulnerable to market research - Malcolm Gladwell
The face is not a secondary billboard for our internal feelings. It is an equal partner in the emotional process. - Malcolm Gladwell
To build a better world we need to replace the patchwork of lucky breaks and arbitrary advantages that today determine success...with a society that provides opportunities for all. - Malcolm Gladwell
Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning. - Malcolm Gladwell
Our first impressions are generated by our experiences and our environment, which means that we can change our first impressions . . . by changing the experiences that comprise those impressions. - Malcolm Gladwell
We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We're a bit too quick to come up with explanations for things we don't really have an explanation for. - Malcolm Gladwell
Poor parents tend to follow[...] a strategy of "accomplishment of natural growth". - Malcolm Gladwell
The power of positive thinking will overcome so many things - Malcolm Gladwell
You can learn as much - or more - from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a public face. - Malcolm Gladwell
If we are to learn to improve the quality of the decisions we make, we need to accept the mysterious nature of our snap judgments. - Malcolm Gladwell
It is quite possible for people who have never met us and who have spent only twenty minutes thinking about us to come to a better understanding of who we are than people who have known us for years. - Malcolm Gladwell
We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction. - Malcolm Gladwell
It would be interesting to find out what goes on in that moment when someone looks at you and comes to all sorts of conclusions. - Malcolm Gladwell
The name given to that one dramatic moment in an epidemic when everything can change all at once is the Tipping Point. - Malcolm Gladwell