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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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The ideology of this America wants to establish reassurance through Imitation. But profit defeats ideology, because the consumers want to be thrilled…
— Umberto Eco
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Bill sees and understands the possibilities of a connected world and has the expertise and the experience to help make it a…
— Steve Case
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But it [crony capitalism] erodes our overall standard of living and stifles entrepreneurs by rewarding the politically favored rather than those who…
— Charles Koch
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The pace of change for entrepreneurs is rapidly accelerating, and the cost and risk of launching a new business and getting off…
— Matt Mickiewicz
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Apple does great products, but at the end of the day we think consumers want choice, consumers want openness.
— Robert Glasper
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Recycling, packaging, businesses are changing all of those things because that's what consumers want.
— Jerry Greenfield
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Consumers want a better world, not just better widgets.
— Simon Mainwaring
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Critics of consumer capitalism like to think that consumers are manipulated and controlled by those who seek to sell them things, but…
— James Surowiecki
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When companies try to guess what consumers want, they essentially make the choice for consumers.
— Sheena Iyengar
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Consumers want products that tell stories, have magic, and inspire.
— Yves Behar
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News in printed form is in secular decline. However, news delivered the way consumers want it is growing and thriving.
— Gracia Martore
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Crony capitalism is much easier than competing in an open market. But it erodes our overall standard of living and stifles entrepreneurs…
— Charles Koch
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