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• Occasions when you can change your mind should be cherished, because they mean you're smarter than you were before.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Mean, Mind, Investing

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• The trick to finding ideas is to convince yourself that everyone and everything has a story.

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  Business, Ideas, Stories

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• Insight is not a lightbulb that goes off inside our heads. It is a flickering candle that can easily be snuffed out.

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  Success, Intuition, Blink

  Malcolm Gladwell (2007). “Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking”, p.68, Hachette UK

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• Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard for twenty-two minutes to make sense of something that most people would give up on after thirty seconds.

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  Giving Up, Hard Work, Persistence

  "Outliers". Book by Malcolm Gladwell, November 18, 2008.

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• The kinds of errors that cause plane crashes are invariably errors of teamwork and communication.

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  Teamwork, Communication, Errors

  Malcolm Gladwell (2008). “Outliers: The Story of Success”, p.127, Penguin UK

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• Innovators have to be open. They have to be able to imagine things that others cannot and be willing to challenge their own preconceptions. They also need to be conscientious. An innovator who has brilliant ideas but lacks the discipline and persistence to carry them out is merely a dreamer ... But crucially, innovators need to be disagreeable ... They are people willing to take social risks-to do things that others might disapprove of.

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  Creativity, Persistence, Ideas

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• It's not about how smart you are. It's about your values.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Smart, Values

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• 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.

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  People, Community, Needs

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

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• When people in authority want the rest of us to behave, it matters-first and foremost-how they behave.

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  People, Want, Matter

  Malcolm Gladwell (2013). “David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants”, p.147, Hachette UK

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• If you look at the careers of great entrepreneurs and you look at the moment they took their plunge, the plunge is rarely a great financial or material risk, it’s a social risk. At the moment they started their new businesses, everyone around them said ‘you’re an idiot’.

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  Careers, Entrepreneur, Risk

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

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  Smart, Cities, People

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• Truly successful decision-making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking.

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  Inspirational, Success, Thinking

  Malcolm Gladwell (2007). “Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking”, p.77, Hachette UK

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• My earliest memories of my father are of seeing him work at his desk and realizing that he was happy. I did not know it then, but that was one of the most precious gifts a father can give his child.

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  Children, Memories, Father

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• What does it say about a society that it devotes more care and patience to the selection of those who handle its money than of those who handle its children?

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  Children, Doe, Care

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• [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.

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  Thinking, Spurs, Research

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• If you play an audiotape of a yawn to blind people, they'll yawn too.

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  Play, People, Blind

  "How to start an epidemic" by Malcolm Gladwell, www.theguardian.com. April 22, 2000.

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• We overlook just how large a role we all play--and by 'we' I mean society--in determining who makes it and who doesn't.

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  Mean, Play, Roles

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• To be someone's best friend requires a minimum investment of time. More than that, though, it takes emotional energy. Caring about someone deeply is exhausting.

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  Success, Caring, Emotional

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• You don't want to be first, right? You want to be second or third. You don't want to be - Facebook is not the first in social media. They're the third, right? Similarly, you know, if you look at Steve Jobs' history, he's never been first.

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  Jobs, Media, Looks

  "Malcolm Gladwell Looks At Technology Innovations". Interview with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. May 16, 2011.

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• The conventional explanation for Jewish success, of course, is that Jews come from a literate, intellectual culture. They are famously "the people of the book." There is surely something to that. But it wasn't just the children of rabbis who went to law school. It was the children of garment workers. And their critical advantage in climbing the professional ladder wasn't the intellectual rigor you get from studying the Talmud. It was the practical intelligence and savvy you get from watching your father sell aprons on Hester Street.

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  Children, Father, Book

  Malcolm Gladwell (2008). “Outliers: The Story of Success”, p.230, Penguin UK

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• The Tipping Point is the biography of an idea, and the idea is very simple. It is that the best way to understand the emergence of fashion trends, the ebb and flow of crime waves, or, for that matter, the transformation of unknown books into bestsellers, or the rise of teenage smoking, or the phenomena of word of mouth, or any number of the other mysterious changes that mark everyday life is to think of them as epidemics. Ideas and products and messages and behaviors spread just like viruses do.

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  Fashion, Teenage, Book

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• 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.

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  Success, Problem, Storytelling

  "Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking". Book by Malcolm Gladwell, January 11, 2005.

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• Good writing does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade. It succeeds or fails on the strength of its ability to engage you, to make you think, to give you a glimpse into someone else's head.

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  Success, Communication, Writing

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• There is a simple way to package information that, under the right circumstances, can make it irresistible. All you have to do is find it.

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  Simple, Information, Way

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

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• 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.

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  Character, Thinking, Brain

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