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Thinking Quotes by James Surowiecki
- Paradoxically, the best way for a group to be smart is for each person in it to think and act as independently as possible.
- 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…
- Of course, plenty of people don't think that guaranteeing affordable health insurance is a core responsibility of government.
- The essence of procrastination lies in not doing what you think you should be doing, a mental contortion that surely accounts for the great psychic…
- 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…
- 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…
- I started in business journalism from the outside, so when I started writing about markets and business, I was struck by the fact that markets…
- 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…
- When Americans think of college these days, the first word that often comes to mind is 'debt.' And from 'debt' it's just a short hop…
- You might think of consumption as a fairly passive activity, but buying new products and services is actually pretty risky, at least if you value…
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