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Malcolm Gladwell
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: September 3
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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.
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The fact of being an underdog changes people in ways that we often fail to appreciate. It opens doors and creates opportunities and enlightens and permits things that might otherwise have seemed unthinkable.
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The people at the top don't work just harder or even much harder than everyone else. They work much, much harder.
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When it's easy to make money, you have no incentive to think about development of talent.
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It wasn't an excuse. It was a fact. He'd had to make his way alone, and no one - not rock stars, not professional athletes, not software billionaires, and not even geniuses - ever makes it alone.
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I know it sounds hard to believe, but habits laid down by our ancestors persist even after the conditions that created those habits have gone away.
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The difference isn't resources, it's attitude.
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In the act of tearing something apart, you lose its meaning.
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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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If you think advantage lies in resources, then you think the best educational system is the one that spends the most money.
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By shifting the balance away from the individual we open the door for the individual. Because we make it obvious that anyone can do it given the right circumstance.
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One of the things I think the police have to do is to stop behaving like armies.
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A fan is always an outsider. Most sportswriters are not, by this definition, fans. They capitalize on access to athletes. They spoke to Kobe last night, and Kobe says his finger is going to be fine. They spent three days fly-fishing with Brett Favre in March, and Brett says he's definitely coming back for another season.
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The answer is that the success of any kind of social epidemic is heavily dependent on the involvement of people with a particular and rare set of social gifts.
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The goal of storytelling should be to make stories as ubiquitous as music.
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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.
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There's no idea that can't be explained to a thoughtful 14-year-old. If the thoughtful 14-year-old doesn't get it, it is your fault, not the 14-year-old's.
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We prematurely write off people as failures. We are too much in awe of those who succeed and far too dismissive of those who fail.
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That is the paradox of the epidemic: that in order to create one contagious movement, you often have to create many small movements first.
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I have a new way of doing things, and I don’t care if you think I’m crazy.
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