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Best Quotes by James Surowiecki
- Auto repair, piloting, skiing, perhaps even management: these are skills that yield to application, hard work, and native talent. But forecasting an uncertain future and…
- Diversity and independence are important because the best collective decisions are the product of disagreement and contest, not consensus or compromise.
- Paradoxically, the best way for a group to be smart is for each person in it to think and act as independently as possible.
- Diversity and independence are important because the best collective decisions are the product of disagreement and contest, not consensus or compromising. An intelligent group, especially…
- It may be that the very qualities that help people get ahead are the ones that make them ill-suited for managing crises. It's hard to…
- Markets work best when there's lots of information available and a historical track record to go on; they excel at predicting things like horse races,…
- The Xbox 360 is the best game console ever designed. It's fast and powerful - games look as good on the 360 as on high-end…
- Workers who come to the U.S. see their wages and their standard of living boosted sharply simply by crossing the border. That's a good thing,…
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- This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Hope is a waking dream. — Aristotle
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle
- It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken. — Aristotle
- Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least… — Aristotle
- Education is the best provision for old age. — Aristotle
- If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when… — Aristotle