« All Problem Quotes · James Surowiecki's Page
Problem Quotes by James Surowiecki
- Diversity and independence are important because the best collective decisions are the product of disagreement and contest, not consensus or compromising. An intelligent group, especially…
- Academics, who work for long periods in a self-directed fashion, may be especially prone to putting things off: surveys suggest that the vast majority of…
- Discussions of health care in the U.S. usually focus on insurance companies, but, whatever their problems, they're not the main driver of health-care inflation: providers…
- 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…
- The fundamental problem with banks is what it's always been: they're in the business of banking, and banking, whether plain vanilla or incredibly sophisticated, is…
- The problem with venality in business is that getting outraged about it makes it easy to miss the systemic problems that venality often disguises.
More Problem Quotes
- When U Feel Depressed, Confused Or Hurt. Dont Worry Stand In Front Of A Mirror, U Will Find The Best One To… — Ritu Ghatourey
- Getting over someone is a grieving process. You mourn the loss of the relationship, and that's only expedited by 'Out of sight,… — Hank Azaria
- A woman whose life is involved in the righteous rearing of her children has a better chance of keeping up her spirits… — Ezra Taft Benson
- The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that… — Chinua Achebe
- The genesis of a poem for me is usually a cluster of words. The only good metaphor I can think of is… — Margaret Atwood
- Facts and data, rather than opinion, are the two cornerstones of problem solving, and yet they are consistently withheld from the people… — Roseanne Barr
- Be careful that what you write does not offend anybody or cause problems within the company. The safest approach is to remove… — Scott Adams
- There are problems with nursing - such as the issue of nurses all having to do degrees these days. But that doesn't… — Jo Brand