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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.'
Written by 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.
Written by Malcolm Gladwell
Does that mean we should give up? Probably. But there are two issues worth considering. The first is - is it really true that drugs destroy the integrity of the game?
Written by Malcolm Gladwell
We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don't always appreciate their fragility.
Written by Malcolm Gladwell
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 possible and spending as much time as possible in deliberation.
Written by Malcolm Gladwell
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.
Written by Malcolm Gladwell
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 down the line to the second and the third and the fourth entrant into a field.
Written by Malcolm Gladwell
Of the great entrepreneurs of this era, people will have forgotten Steve Jobs.
Written by Malcolm Gladwell
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.
Written by Malcolm Gladwell
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.
Written by Malcolm Gladwell
The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.
Written by Malcolm Gladwell
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.
Written by Malcolm Gladwell
My books have contradictions all the time - and people are fine with that.
Written by Malcolm Gladwell
You think it matters to the kids whether they're learning to play on a Steinway or a normal piano?
Written by Malcolm Gladwell
We should be firing bad teachers.
Written by Malcolm Gladwell
The willingness to be self-critical in England is much greater than the willingness to be self-critical in America.
Written by Malcolm Gladwell
If you're skinny and you can't play hockey in Canada, you aren't left with a lot of options. I was left with running.
Written by Malcolm Gladwell
Take the great example of the four-minute mile. One guy breaks it, then all of a sudden everyone breaks it. And they break it in such a short period of time that it can't be because they were training harder. It's purely that it was a psychological barrier, and someone had to show them that they could do it.
Written by Malcolm Gladwell
Age-class running, as you know, is completely unreliable. It's based on this artificial thing, which is that people who are the same age have the same level of physical maturity. Which just isn't true.
Written by Malcolm Gladwell
I never had those dreams of making the Olympics. Never.
Written by Malcolm Gladwell
When you write about sports, you're allowed to engage in mischief. Nothing is at stake.
Written by Malcolm Gladwell
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.
Written by Malcolm Gladwell
I'm just trying to say that it should reassure us that the inevitable traumas of being human do end up producing some good. Otherwise, the human condition is overwhelmingly depressing.
Written by Malcolm Gladwell
We used to say poor people had lousy genes. Then we decided that wasn't OK, but we transferred the prejudice to upbringing. We said, 'You were neglected as a child, so you'll never make it.' That's just as pernicious.
Written by Malcolm Gladwell
An incredibly high percentage of successful entrepreneurs are dyslexic. That's one of the little-known facts.
Written by Malcolm Gladwell
If you go to an elite school where the other students in your class are all really brilliant, you run the risk of mistakenly believing yourself to not be a good student.
Written by Malcolm Gladwell
If you're last in your class at Harvard, it doesn't feel like you're a good student, even though you really are. It's not smart for everyone to want to go to a great school.
Written by Malcolm Gladwell
If Harvard is $60,000 and University of Toronto, where I went to school, is maybe six. So you're really telling me that education is 10 times better at Harvard than it is at University of Toronto? That seems ridiculous to me.
Written by Malcolm Gladwell
If you take away the gift of reading, you create the gift of listening.
Written by Malcolm Gladwell
The most influential thinker, in my life, has been the psychologist Richard Nisbett. He basically gave me my view of the world.
Written by Malcolm Gladwell

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