My favorite
Tipping Point
quotes
Images: www.sxc.hu– “The Tipping Point” was written by M. Gladwell

The name given to that one dramatic
moment in an epidemic when
everything can change
all at once
is the Tipping
Point

Six degrees of separation…
A very small number of people are
connected to everyone else in a few
steps - the rest of us are linked to
the world through those special few

The strength of weak ties
People are not
getting jobs
through their friends
but through their
acquaintances

Mavens are data banks.
They provide the message.
Connectors are social glue –
they spread it.
Salesmen have the skills
to persuade us.

We all want to believe that the key to
making an impact on someone lies with the
inherent quality of the ideas we present.
[ But often an
idea can tip by
changing the
context or
tinkering with the
presentation ]

Just like fashion trends,
crime is contagious. It
starts with a broken window
and can spread to an entire
community.

Human beings invariably make the mistake
of overestimating the importance of
fundamental character traits and
underestimating the importance of
situation and context.

A child is better off in a good
neighborhood and a troubled
family than in a troubled
neighborhood and a good family.

The size of the crowd in the theater
has a big effect on how good the
movie seems

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.

The figure of150 seems to
represent the maximum number of
individuals with whom we can have a
genuinely social relationship

We store information in
other people