Malcolm Gladwell Quotes About Community

Quotes about: Community

• Without the New York Times, there is no blog community. They'd have nothing to blog about.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Funny, New York, Thoughtful

• Superstar lawyers and math whizzes and software entrepreneurs appear at first blush to lie outside ordinary experience. But they don't. They are products of history and community, of opportunity and legacy. Their success is not exceptional or mysterious. It is grounded in a web of advantages and inheritances, some deserved, some not, some earned, some just plain lucky - but all critical to making them who they are. The outlier, in the end, is not an outlier at all.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Lying, Math, Opportunity

• If you want to bring a fundamental change in people's belief and behavior...you need to create a community around them, where those new beliefs can be practiced and expressed and nurtured.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  People, Community, Needs

  "The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference". Book by Malcolm Gladwell, www.wired.com. 2000.

• The single most important thing a city can do is provide a community where interesting, smart people want to live with their families.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Smart, Cities, People

• I think actually the marketing community is approaching a crisis: There are just too many messages competing for too little attention. That is the fundamental problem.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Thinking, Community, Marketing

  "Online Extra: Q&A with Malcolm Gladwell". Interview with Gerry Khermouch, www.bloomberg.com. July 30, 2001.

• What we do as a community, as a society, for each other, matters as much as what we do for ourselves. It sounds a little trite, but there's a powerful amount of truth in that, I think.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Powerful, Thinking, Community

  Interview with Donna Bowman, www.avclub.com. November 17, 2008.

• Living a long life, the conventional wisdom at the time said, depended to a great extent on who we were-that is, our genes. It depended on the decisions we made-on what we chose to eat, and how much we chose to exercise, and how effectively we were treated by the medical system. No one was used to thinking about health in terms of community.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Exercise, Thinking, Long

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