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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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I think it's important that people know what raising the debt ceiling is. It's Congress giving permission to the federal government to…
— Michele Bachmann
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Raising the debt ceiling is not additional spending. It is simply saying, you, the United States of America, can continue to borrow…
— Jay Carney
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The president says we need to raise the debt ceiling because America pays its bills. No if we paid our bills we…
— Peter Schiff
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I would be embarrassed to tell you how many folks ran saying that they weren't going to spend a bunch of money,…
— Mick Mulvaney
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The bottom line is very simple. You negotiate on this, they will up the ante for the debt ceiling.
— Charles Schumer
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The debate we won't be having is whether or not the debt ceiling should be raised. We will not have a situation…
— Jay Carney
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I would vote against raising the national debt ceiling. Again, this is about mortgaging the future of unborn generations of Americans. It's…
— Mike Lee
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We need to get rid of the debt ceiling law. It's anachronistic and it's a problem.
— Mark Zandi
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Bless his heart, I have respect for Mitt Romney, but I do not have respect for what he has done through this…
— Sarah Palin
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It is simply science fiction fantasy to say that, if you do not raise the debt ceiling, that everything is going to…
— Mike Lee
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America pays its bills. It always has. It always will. The fact that Washington is now debating whether to honor its debts…
— Peter Welch
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If you ask the question of Americans, should we pay our bills? One hundred percent would say yes. There's a significant misunderstanding…
— Peter Welch
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