« All Often Play Quotes · James Surowiecki's Page

Often Play Quotes by James Surowiecki

1 Often Play quote by James Surowiecki

Speculators get a bad rap. In the popular imagination they're greedy, heedless, and amoral, adept at price manipulations and dirty tricks. In reality, they often…

More Quotes by James Surowiecki

James Surowiecki has 150 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Auto repair, piloting, skiing, perhaps even management: these are skills that yield to application, hard work, and native talent. But forecasting an…
Lack of confidence, sometimes alternating with unrealistic dreams of heroic success, often leads to procrastination, and many studies suggest that procrastinators are…
It's a familiar truism that at any one moment, financial markets are dominated by either fear or greed. But the healthiest markets…
Bubbles and crashes are textbook examples of collective decision making gone wrong. In a bubble, all of the conditions that make groups…
If small groups are included in the decision-making process, then they should be allowed to make decisions. If an organization sets up…
Diversity and independence are important because the best collective decisions are the product of disagreement and contest, not consensus or compromise.
Groups are only smart when there is a balance between the information that everyone in the group shares and the information that…
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…
Paradoxically, the best way for a group to be smart is for each person in it to think and act as independently…
This intelligence, or what I'll call "the wisdom of crowds," is at work in the world in many different guises. It's the…
The fact that cognitive diversity matters does not mean that if you assemble a group of diverse but thoroughly uninformed people, their…
One key to successful group decisions is getting people to pay much less attention to what everyone else is saying.

See all 150 quotes by James Surowiecki »

More Often Play Quotes

Popular Often Play quotes from across the collection:

Bing Crosby and I play a lot of golf together and I have a small course at my place where we often… — Bob Hope
A middle-aged cat will often play as unreservedly as a kitten, though he knows perfectly well it is only a game. — William Lyon Phelps
I often play women who are not essentially good or likable, and I often go through a stage where I hate them.… — Kathleen Turner
They praise these tiny indie bands, but if a band finally gets mainstream success, the same people who praised them attack them… — Kyle Baker
It has been our experience that if a young man decides to go on a mission, he can not only play well… — LaVell Edwards
I've worked with genius performers. Sometimes they created great work with a bad script... but not often. Play it safe: write well. — Jerry Juhl
Performers should realize they not only have to prepare themselves for concert purposes as far as memorizing their programs goes, but for… — Leonard Rose
I often play a move I know how to refute. — Bent Larsen
I'm quite a curious person. I don't mind being the one who doesn't know things, a role I often play in QI. — Alan Davies
I often play on the cello-bass side of the orchestra, because I prefer the deep sounds. I can't hear the violins well. — Evelyn Glennie
As an actor, you most often play relatively average parts, so to get to play extreme versions of anything, those are the… — Neil Patrick Harris
Speculators get a bad rap. In the popular imagination they're greedy, heedless, and amoral, adept at price manipulations and dirty tricks. In… — James Surowiecki

See all Often Play Quotes »

Browse James Surowiecki Quotes by Category