20 Malcolm Gladwell quotes on leadership and success: Malcolm Gladwell was born on September 3, 1963 in Fareham, England to Joyce Gladwell and Graham Gladwell. He is a Canadian journalist, author, and public speaker.

He graduated with a degree in History from the University of Toronto. He has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1996. He is also the host of the podcast Revisionist History.

Gladwell gained worldwide attention from his five books The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, Outliers: The Story of Success, What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures, and David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants. His all five books were on The New York Times Best Seller list.

He is one of the best journalists in all over the world.  In 2005, Time magazine named Gladwell in one of its 100 most influential people.

 

Here Are 20 Malcolm Gladwell Quotes On Leadership, Success

 

“Practice isn’t the thing you do once you’re good. It’s the thing you do that makes you good.” – Malcolm Gladwell

 

“When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choice of a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious, from somewhere within ourselves. In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed, I think, by the deep inner needs of our nature.” – Malcolm Gladwell

 

“Those three things – autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward – are, most people will agree, the three qualities that work has to have if it is to be satisfying.” – Malcolm Gladwell

 

“Truly successful decision-making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking.” – Malcolm Gladwell

 

“Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning” – Malcolm Gladwell

 

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  “The values of the world we inhabit and the people we surround ourselves with have a profound effect on who we are.” – Malcolm Gladwell

 

“There is a set of advantages that have to do with material resources, and there is a set that have to do with the absence of material resources- and the reason underdogs win as often as they do is that the latter is sometimes every bit the equal of the former.” – Malcolm Gladwell

 

“For younger kids, repetition is really valuable. They demand it. When they see a show over and over again, they not only are understanding it better, which is a form of power, but just by predicting what is going to happen, I think they feel a real sense of affirmation and self-worth.” – Malcolm Gladwell

 

“We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.” – Malcolm Gladwell

 

“Some pretend to be rich, yet have nothing; others pretend to be poor, yet have great wealth.” – Malcolm Gladwell

 

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  “It is those who are successful, in other words, who are most likely to be given the kinds of special opportunities that lead to further success. It’s the rich who get the biggest tax breaks. It’s the best students who get the best teaching and most attention. And it’s the biggest nine- and ten-year-olds who get the most coaching and practice. Success is the result of what sociologists like to call “accumulative advantage.” – Malcolm Gladwell

 

“Achievement is talent plus preparation.” – 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

 

“Character isn’t what we think it is or, rather, what we want it to be. It isn’t a stable, easily identifiable set of closely related traits, and it only seems that way because of a glitch in the way our brains are organized. Character is more like a bundle of habits and tendencies and interests, loosely bound together and dependent, at certain times, on circumstance and context.” – Malcolm Gladwell

 

“IQ is a measure, to some degree, of innate ability. But social savvy is knowledge. It’s a set of skills that have to be learned. It has to come from somewhere, and the place where we seem to get these kinds of attitudes and skills is from our families.” – Malcolm Gladwell

 

“Extraordinary achievement is less about talent than it is about opportunity.” – Malcolm Gladwell

 

 

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“Don’t depend on heaven for food, but on your own two hands carrying the load.” – Malcolm Gladwell

 

“When we talk about analytic versus intuitive decision making, neither is good or bad. What is bad is if you use either of them in an inappropriate circumstance.” – Malcolm Gladwell

 

“It’s not how much money we make that ultimately makes us happy between nine and five. It’s whether or not our work fulfills us. Being a teacher is meaningful.” – Malcolm Gladwell

 

“No one who can rise before dawn three hundred sixty days a year fails to make his family rich.” – Malcolm Gladwell

 

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