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# Dominic Cummings

(1971)   Political Adviser

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Dominic Cummings is a political adviser.

## Quick Facts About Dominic Cummings

Born November 25, 1971

Profession Political Adviser

## About Dominic Cummings

Dominic Mckenzie Cummings is a British political strategist who served as Chief Adviser to Prime Minister Boris Johnson from 24 July 2019 until his resignation on 13 November 2020.

##  Quotes by Dominic Cummings · Page 2

> [In history books, luck is always underplayed and the talent of individuals is usually overplayed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dominic-cummings/in-history-books-luck-is-always-underplayed-and-the-talent-of/)

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> [Economics is clearly a vital area of prediction for people in politics.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dominic-cummings/economics-is-clearly-a-vital-area-of-prediction-for-people-in-politics/)

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> [We should stop selecting leaders from a subset of Oxbridge egomaniacs with a humanities degree and a spell as spin doctor.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dominic-cummings/we-should-stop-selecting-leaders-from-a-subset-of-oxbridge-egomaniacs/)

[Dominic Cummings](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dominic-cummings/)

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> [I want people to understand the barriers to serious government in order that more people take action.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dominic-cummings/i-want-people-to-understand-the-barriers-to-serious-government-in/)

[Dominic Cummings](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dominic-cummings/)

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> [Billionaires who want to influence politics could get better 'returns on investment' than from early stage Amazon.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dominic-cummings/billionaires-who-want-to-influence-politics-could-get-better-returns/)

[Dominic Cummings](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dominic-cummings/)

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> [Facebook, like great politicians, surfs waves that it very rarely (if ever) creates.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dominic-cummings/facebook-like-great-politicians-surfs-waves-that-it-very-rarely-if/)

[Dominic Cummings](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dominic-cummings/)

[Facebook](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/facebook/)

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> [Brexit cannot be done with the traditional Westminster/Whitehall system as Vote Leave warned repeatedly before 23 June 2016.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dominic-cummings/brexit-cannot-be-done-with-the-traditional-westminster-whitehall/)

[Dominic Cummings](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dominic-cummings/)

[Brexit](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/brexit/)

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> [Victoria Woodcock ran Vote Leave - she was a truly awesome project manager and without her Cameron would certainly have won.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dominic-cummings/victoria-woodcock-ran-vote-leave-she-was-a-truly-awesome-project/)

[Dominic Cummings](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dominic-cummings/)

[Awesome](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/awesome/)

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> [I know from my nightclub days that when local cops need to show a fall in crime for political reasons there are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dominic-cummings/i-know-from-my-nightclub-days-that-when-local-cops-need-to-show-a/)

[Dominic Cummings](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dominic-cummings/)

[Crime](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/crime/)

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> [Changing the world in a profound and beneficial way is not enough to put a dint in bureaucracies which operate on their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dominic-cummings/changing-the-world-in-a-profound-and-beneficial-way-is-not-enough-to/)

[Dominic Cummings](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dominic-cummings/)

[Bureaucracies](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bureaucracies/)

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> [The biggest problem for governments with new technologies is that the limiting factor on applying new technologies is not the technology but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dominic-cummings/the-biggest-problem-for-governments-with-new-technologies-is-that-the/)

[Dominic Cummings](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dominic-cummings/)

[Change](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/change/)

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> [One of the problems with the civil service is the way in which people are shuffled such that they either do not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dominic-cummings/one-of-the-problems-with-the-civil-service-is-the-way-in-which-people/)

[Dominic Cummings](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dominic-cummings/)

[Civil service](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/civil-service/)

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> [It is very very hard for humans to lift our eyes from today and to go out into the future and think…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dominic-cummings/it-is-very-very-hard-for-humans-to-lift-our-eyes-from-today-and-to-go/)

[Dominic Cummings](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dominic-cummings/)

[Eyes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/eyes/)

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> [Markets and science show that some fields of human endeavour work much better than political decision-making. I think we could do much…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dominic-cummings/markets-and-science-show-that-some-fields-of-human-endeavour-work/)

[Dominic Cummings](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dominic-cummings/)

[Better](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/better/)

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> [Regardless of political affiliation most of the policy/media world, as a subset of 'the educated classes' in general, tended to hold a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dominic-cummings/regardless-of-political-affiliation-most-of-the-policy-media-world-as/)

[Dominic Cummings](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dominic-cummings/)

[Blank slate](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/blank-slate/)

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> [Project management is not hard in the same way that theoretical physics is hard - there are tried and trusted methods that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dominic-cummings/project-management-is-not-hard-in-the-same-way-that-theoretical/)

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[Government](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/government/)

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> [One of the things I wanted to do in the Department for Education was open up the policy making process and run…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dominic-cummings/one-of-the-things-i-wanted-to-do-in-the-department-for-education-was/)

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[Adapt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/adapt/)

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> [The stock market is an exploitable market where being right means you get rich and you help the overall system error-correct which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dominic-cummings/the-stock-market-is-an-exploitable-market-where-being-right-means-you/)

[Dominic Cummings](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dominic-cummings/)

[Customer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/customer/)

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> [If we want leaders to make good decisions amid huge complexity, and learn how to build great teams, then we should send…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dominic-cummings/if-we-want-leaders-to-make-good-decisions-amid-huge-complexity-and/)

[Dominic Cummings](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dominic-cummings/)

[Experience](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/experience/)

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> [While our ancestor chiefs at least had some intuitive feel for important variables like agriculture and cavalry our contemporary chiefs (and those…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dominic-cummings/while-our-ancestor-chiefs-at-least-had-some-intuitive-feel-for/)

[Dominic Cummings](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dominic-cummings/)

[Agriculture](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/agriculture/)

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> [Until the 20th century, medicine was more like politics than physics. Its forecasts were often bogus and its record grim. In the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dominic-cummings/until-the-20th-century-medicine-was-more-like-politics-than-physics/)

[Dominic Cummings](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dominic-cummings/)

[Doctor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/doctor/)

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> [If you go back to the Euro campaign in 1999, how many chief executives and chairmen of FTSE 100 companies were speaking…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dominic-cummings/if-you-go-back-to-the-euro-campaign-in-1999-how-many-chief-executives/)

[Dominic Cummings](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dominic-cummings/)

[Euro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/euro/)

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> [We evolved to make sense of this nonlinear and unpredictable world with stories. These stories are often very powerful.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dominic-cummings/we-evolved-to-make-sense-of-this-nonlinear-and-unpredictable-world/)

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> [The British political system is broken in many ways and needs big changes - the E.U. is not our only problem.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dominic-cummings/the-british-political-system-is-broken-in-many-ways-and-needs-big/)

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[Big](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/big/)

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> [People are always selling the idea that they have a magic bullet of persuasion. You won't get poor by shorting such promises.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dominic-cummings/people-are-always-selling-the-idea-that-they-have-a-magic-bullet-of/)

[Dominic Cummings](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dominic-cummings/)

[Always](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/always/)

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> [Almost all analysis of politics and government considers relatively surface phenomena.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dominic-cummings/almost-all-analysis-of-politics-and-government-considers-relatively/)

[Dominic Cummings](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dominic-cummings/)

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> [We need organisations like Vote Leave to operate permanently to give a voice to those who otherwise won't be heard.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dominic-cummings/we-need-organisations-like-vote-leave-to-operate-permanently-to-give/)

[Dominic Cummings](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dominic-cummings/)

[Give](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/give/)

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> [For many decades, Whitehall has deceived itself and deceived the public about the true nature of the E.U. project.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dominic-cummings/for-many-decades-whitehall-has-deceived-itself-and-deceived-the/)

[Dominic Cummings](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dominic-cummings/)

[Deceived](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/deceived/)

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> [I know from my days working on education reform in government that it's almost impossible to exaggerate how little those who work…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dominic-cummings/i-know-from-my-days-working-on-education-reform-in-government-that-it/)

[Dominic Cummings](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dominic-cummings/)

[Education](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/education/)

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> [Political analysis is full of chess metaphors, reflecting an old tradition of seeing games as models of physical and social reality.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dominic-cummings/political-analysis-is-full-of-chess-metaphors-reflecting-an-old/)

[Dominic Cummings](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dominic-cummings/)

[Chess](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/chess/)

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> [Priorities are fundamental to politics because of inevitable information bottlenecks: these bottlenecks can be transformed by rare good organisation but they cannot…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dominic-cummings/priorities-are-fundamental-to-politics-because-of-inevitable/)

[Dominic Cummings](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dominic-cummings/)

[Bottlenecks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bottlenecks/)

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> [Discussion of politics and government almost totally ignores the concept of training people to update their opinions in response to new evidence…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dominic-cummings/discussion-of-politics-and-government-almost-totally-ignores-the/)

[Dominic Cummings](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dominic-cummings/)

[Adapt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/adapt/)

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> [In the commercial world, big companies mostly die within a few decades because they cannot maintain an internal system to keep them…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dominic-cummings/in-the-commercial-world-big-companies-mostly-die-within-a-few-decades/)

[Dominic Cummings](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dominic-cummings/)

[Big](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/big/)

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> [Politics does the equivalent of constantly trying to reinvent children's arithmetic and botching it. It does not build reliable foundations of knowledge.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dominic-cummings/politics-does-the-equivalent-of-constantly-trying-to-reinvent/)

[Dominic Cummings](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dominic-cummings/)

[Children](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/children/)

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> [I think the right way to deal with terrorism is to carry on with normal life, like Britain used to when it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dominic-cummings/i-think-the-right-way-to-deal-with-terrorism-is-to-carry-on-with/)

[Dominic Cummings](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dominic-cummings/)

[Country](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/country/)

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> [Despite the centrality of communication to politics it is remarkable how little attention Insiders pay to what works - never mind the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dominic-cummings/despite-the-centrality-of-communication-to-politics-it-is-remarkable/)

[Dominic Cummings](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dominic-cummings/)

[Communication](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/communication/)

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> [People are always asking 'how could the politicians let X happen with Y?' where Y is something important. People find it hard…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dominic-cummings/people-are-always-asking-how-could-the-politicians-let-x-happen-with/)

[Dominic Cummings](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dominic-cummings/)

[Believe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/believe/)

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> [If you want to make big improvements in communication, my advice is - hire physicists, not communications people from normal companies and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dominic-cummings/if-you-want-to-make-big-improvements-in-communication-my-advice-is/)

[Dominic Cummings](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dominic-cummings/)

[Advice](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/advice/)

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> [Every failing organisation has the same stories, people find it very hard to learn from the most successful organisations and people.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dominic-cummings/every-failing-organisation-has-the-same-stories-people-find-it-very/)

[Dominic Cummings](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dominic-cummings/)

[Failing](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/failing/)

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> [All the best companies quickly go downhill after the departure of people like Bill Gates - even when such very able people…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dominic-cummings/all-the-best-companies-quickly-go-downhill-after-the-departure-of/)

[Dominic Cummings](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dominic-cummings/)

[Avoid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/avoid/)

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## Dominic Cummings by topic

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