Quote

Asian culture has a profoundly different relationship to work. It rewards people who are persistent.

Malcolm Gladwell

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Malcolm Gladwell
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: September 3
Journalist
Screenwriter
Sociologist
Writer
Malcolm Timothy Gladwell
People
Profoundly
Persistent
Asian
Rewards
Relationship
Culture
Different
Work

More quotes by Malcolm Gladwell

Image
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.
Malcolm Gladwell
Image
You may hate Hillary Clinton and you may have good reason for hating Hillary Clinton, but Hillary Clinton is one person who even if she's elected will be gone one day and you still have the task of keeping American democracy going.
Malcolm Gladwell
Image
Radio stations have constructed a narrow door[way], and that's because they don't understand how complex and paradoxical our snap judgments are. It's hard to measure new songs.
Malcolm Gladwell
Image
The Band-Aid solution is actually the best kind of solution because it involves solving a problem with the minimum amount of effort and time and cost.
Malcolm Gladwell
Image
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.
Malcolm Gladwell
Image
Those with health insurance are overinsured and their behavior is distorted by moral hazard. Those without health insurance use their own money to make decisions based on an assessment of their needs. The insured are wasteful. The uninsured are prudent. So what's the solution? Make the insured a little more like the uninsured.
Malcolm Gladwell
Image
Of the great entrepreneurs of this era, people will have forgotten Steve Jobs.
Malcolm Gladwell
Image
If there is one thing I learned by reading Epstein's The Sports Gene it is that world-class athletes are, by definition, abnormal: that is, the kind of person capable of competing at that level is necessarily very different from the rest of us physiologically. They are outliers.
Malcolm Gladwell
Image
When it's easy to make money, you have no incentive to think about development of talent.
Malcolm Gladwell
Image
Track is full of the absolute nicest and most polite athletes in all of sports, and where does it get us?
Malcolm Gladwell
Image
if we can control the environment in which rapid cognition takes place, then we can control rapid cognition
Malcolm Gladwell
Image
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
Image
People are experience-rich and theory-poor. I help people organize / make sense of their experiences.
Malcolm Gladwell
Image
Occasions when you can change your mind should be cherished, because they mean you're smarter than you were before.
Malcolm Gladwell
Image
Outlier are those who have been given opportunities-- -and who have had the strength and presence of mind to seize them.
Malcolm Gladwell
Image
If we think about emotion this way - as outside-in, not inside out - it is possible to understand how some people can have an enormous amount of influence over others. Some of us, after all, are very good at expressiing emotions and feelings, which means that we are far more emotionally contagious than the rest of us.
Malcolm Gladwell
Image
The difference isn't resources, it's attitude.
Malcolm Gladwell
Image
The kinds of errors that cause plane crashes are invariably errors of teamwork and communication.
Malcolm Gladwell
Image
Have you ever wondered... how religious movements get started? Usually, we think of them as a product of highly charismatic evangelists... but the spread of any new and contagious ideology also has a lot to do with the skillful use of group power.
Malcolm Gladwell
Image
I worry that track is going to enter into an impossibly complicated stage, where our understanding of the complexities of human physiology - and our ability to accentuate and exploit them - is going to make the notion of pure competition impossible.
Malcolm Gladwell