Malcolm gladwell

An aggressive drug-testing program would cut down on certain abuses, but its never going to catch everyone - or even close to everyone.

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...

Of the great entrepreneurs of this era, people will have forgotten Steve Jobs.

So, it's a very, you know - maybe we're wrong in - you know, we go around thinking the innovator is the person who's first to kind of conceive of something. And maybe the innovation process continues...

We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don't always appreciate their fragility.

We need to be clear when we venerate entrepreneurs what we are venerating.They are not moral leaders. If they were moral leaders, they wouldn't be great businessmen.

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.

The best example of how impossible it will be for Major League Baseball to crack down on steroids is the fact that baseball and the media are still talking about the problem as 'steroids.'

What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't judge a book by its cover. We believe that we are always better off gathering as much information as...

There will be statues of Bill Gates across the Third World. There's a reasonable shot that - because of his money - we will cure malaria.