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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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A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it.
— John le Carre
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When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Never underestimate the effectiveness of a straight cash bribe.
— Claud Cockburn
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It is essential to seek out enemy agents who have come to conduct espionage against you and to bribe them to serve…
— Sun Tzu
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Lobbying' is the activity of attempting to influence legislation by privately influencing the legislators. It is the result and creation of a…
— Ayn Rand
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Successful ... politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or otherwise manage…
— Walter Lippmann
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No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression. My conscience is…
— Abraham Lincoln
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For that, one has to drop all the masks, one has to risk many things, particularly respectability. That is a bribe by…
— Rajneesh
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