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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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Eminem's 'Lose Yourself' is my go-to song to pump myself up if I'm having a tough time or if I get really…
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What the president announced yesterday, is that somehow magically, if we just continue to prime the pump of taxpayer dollars, we're going…
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I was in end stage heart failure, liver and kidneys shutting down, and on an emergency basis they went in and planted…
— Dick Cheney
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I'm a good example of someone who can come to Hollywood and keep their feet on the ground with all the rock…
— Pamela Anderson
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Half-caf, double-tall, non fat, whole-milk foam, bone-dry, half-pump mocha, half sugar in the raw, double cup, no lid, capp - to go.
— Linda Evangelista
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Not many people understand what a pump is. It must be experienced to be understood. It is the greatest feeling that I…
— Arnold Schwarzenegger
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I want to teach the post basic moves: turn and bank; drop-step and shoot a power layup; turn to the middle, pump-fake,…
— Jim Harrick
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This I do know beyond any reasonable doubt. Regardless of what you are doing, if you pump long enough, hard enough and…
— Zig Ziglar
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Keynesians think that you can take water from the deep end of the swimming, pump it into the shallow end of the…
— Thomas Woods
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I don't have 30 days and 30 nights, to show you why all the hoochies say there's nothing finer than Scott Steiner,…
— Scott Steiner
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These powerbrokers, which bomb innocent countries and slaughter people, and, you know, pump the food chain full of garbage and just everything…
— Alex Jones
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Americans are driving more in less-efficient vehicles. Sales of sports utility vehicles and pickup trucks have been amazingly strong considering the recession,…
— Unknown Author
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