There are exceptional people out there who are capable of starting epidemics. All you have to do is find them.
Malcolm GladwellOutlier are those who have been given opportunities-- -and who have had the strength and presence of mind to seize them.
Malcolm GladwellIt's as if you were interested in fashion and your neighbor when you were growing up happened to be Giorgio Armani.
Malcolm GladwellThe people at the top don't work just harder or even much harder than everyone else. They work much, much harder.
Malcolm GladwellHard 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[Research] suggests that what we think of as free will is largely an illusion: much of the time, we are simply operating on automatic pilot, and the way we think and act – and how well we think and act on the spur of the moment – are a lot more susceptible to outside influences than we realize.
Malcolm Gladwell