If people disobey, don't ask what is wrong with them, ask what's wrong with their leaders.

The hope with Tipping Point was it would help the reader understand that real change was possible. With Blink, I wanted to get people to take the enormous power of their intuition seriously. My wish with Outliers is that it makes us understand how much of a group project success is. When outliers become outliers it is not just because of their own efforts. It's because of the contributions of lots of different people and lots of different circumstances.

Consistency is the most overrated of all human virtues... I'm someone who changes his mind all the time.

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.

Achievement is talent plus preparation. The problem with this view is that the closer psychologists look at the careers of the gifted, the smaller the role innate talent seems to play and the bigger the role preparation seems to play.

There is more going on beneath the surface than we think, and more going on in little, finite moments of time than we would guess.

Why are man hole covers around?" If you don't knwo the answer to the questions, you're not smart enough to work at microsoft