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Them Quotes by James Surowiecki
- If small groups are included in the decision-making process, then they should be allowed to make decisions. If an organization sets up teams and then…
- 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…
- The fact that cognitive diversity matters does not mean that if you assemble a group of diverse but thoroughly uninformed people, their collective wisdom will…
- Under the right circumstances, groups are remarkably smart - smarter even sometimes than the smartest people in them.
- The Internet has become a remarkable fount of economic and social innovation largely because it's been an archetypal level playing field, on which even sites…
- Companies have long gathered data to break down their customer base into specific segments. Now political parties have become adept at micro-targeting, too, using data…
- Critics of consumer capitalism like to think that consumers are manipulated and controlled by those who seek to sell them things, but for the most…
- Disasters redistribute money from taxpayers to construction workers, from insurance companies to homeowners, and even from those who once lived in the destroyed city to…
- 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…
- If we want our regulators to do better, we have to embrace a simple idea: regulation isn't an obstacle to thriving free markets; it's a…
- It may be that the very qualities that help people get ahead are the ones that make them ill-suited for managing crises. It's hard to…
- Standards wars involve lots of variables, and understanding them often seems more an art than a science. They generally involve just two big players, and…
- Unlike most government programs, Social Security and, in part, Medicare are funded by payroll taxes dedicated specifically to them. Some of the tax revenue pays…
- When all is said and done, cheap gas is an illusion, because our reliance on gas creates a whole series of costs that aren't factored…
More Them Quotes
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster