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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 each of the…
- You can't fuel real economic growth with indiscriminate credit. You can only fuel it with well-allocated, long-term investment.
- Flexible supply chains are great for multinationals and consumers. But they erode already thin profit margins in developing-world factories and foster a pell-mell work environment…
- For a crowd to be smart, the people in it need to be not only diverse in their perspectives but also, relatively speaking, independent of…
- In industries where a lot of competitors are selling the same product - mangoes, gasoline, DVD players - price is the easiest way to distinguish…
- In the days when corporate downsizing was all the rage, Wall Street took a lot of flak for judging companies too harshly and setting the…
- Life insurance became popular only when insurance companies stopped emphasizing it as a good investment and sold it instead as a symbolic commitment by fathers…
- Self-dealing, essentially, occurs when managers run companies to line their own pockets instead of those of the companies' owners. It's been a perennial problem in…
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- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
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