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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 roughest road often leads to the top.
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I think that in today's world, by nature, we are all self-centered. And that often leads to selfishness.
— Gary Chapman
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The habit of an opinion often leads to the complete conviction of its truth, it hides the weaker parts of it, and…
— Jons Jacob Berzelius
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Having precise ideas often leads to a man doing nothing.
— Paul Valery
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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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I have often thought that if photography were difficult in the true sense of the term-meaning that the creation of a simple…
— Ansel Adams
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I believe in hard work and luck, and that the first often leads to the second
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Over Legislation is not necessarily a virtue. It often leads to misuse of law.
— Arun Jaitley
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The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster.
— Ansel Adams
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... it [masturbation] too often leads to grievous sin, even to that sin against nature, homosexuality. For, done in private, it evolves…
— Spencer W. Kimball
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Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.
— Harvey Mackay
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Incidentally, when we're faced with a "prove or disprove," we're usually better off trying first to disprove with a counterexample, for two…
— Ronald Graham
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