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James Surowiecki has 150 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Auto repair, piloting, skiing, perhaps even management: these are skills that yield to application, hard work, and native talent. But forecasting an…
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Lack of confidence, sometimes alternating with unrealistic dreams of heroic success, often leads to procrastination, and many studies suggest that procrastinators are…
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It's a familiar truism that at any one moment, financial markets are dominated by either fear or greed. But the healthiest markets…
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Bubbles and crashes are textbook examples of collective decision making gone wrong. In a bubble, all of the conditions that make groups…
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If small groups are included in the decision-making process, then they should be allowed to make decisions. If an organization sets up…
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Diversity and independence are important because the best collective decisions are the product of disagreement and contest, not consensus or compromise.
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Groups are only smart when there is a balance between the information that everyone in the group shares and the information that…
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But, if recent history has taught us anything, it’s that self-regulation doesn’t work in finance, and that worries about reputation are a…
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Paradoxically, the best way for a group to be smart is for each person in it to think and act as independently…
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This intelligence, or what I'll call "the wisdom of crowds," is at work in the world in many different guises. It's the…
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The fact that cognitive diversity matters does not mean that if you assemble a group of diverse but thoroughly uninformed people, their…
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One key to successful group decisions is getting people to pay much less attention to what everyone else is saying.
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Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the…
— Jim Bouton
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Whether you want to or not, you do serve as a role model. People will always put more faith in baseball players…
— Brooks Robinson
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Baseball players quit playing and they take up golf. Basketball players quit, take up golf. Football players quit, take up golf. What…
— George Archer
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Canada is a country whose main exports are hockey players and cold fronts. Our main imports are baseball players and acid rain.
— Pierre Trudeau
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Models are like baseball players. We make a lot of money quickly, but all of a sudden we're 30 years old, we…
— Cindy Crawford
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Some coaches believed they could judge a player's performance simply by watching it. In this they were deeply mistaken. The naked eye…
— Michael Lewis
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It is a mass language only in the same sense that its baseball slang is born of baseball players. That is, it…
— Raymond Chandler
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All I can say is I've been reading the lips of bleeped-out words, angry baseball players, and stoned-out rock stars on awards…
— Marlee Matlin
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People think [baseball players] make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only make $500,000.
— Unknown Author
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The more that Japanese players go to the big leagues to play and succeed, the more that will serve to inspire young…
— Ichiro Suzuki
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I didn't run from the situation. I didn't hide the ordeal from the reporters like the sissy baseball players. I fought it…
— James Toney
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The reason I didn't take the baseball route is because they don't have rankings for baseball players.
— Jim Courier
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