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You Quotes by James Surowiecki
- You can't fuel real economic growth with indiscriminate credit. You can only fuel it with well-allocated, long-term investment.
- Pop music thrives on repetition. You know a song's a hit when you've heard it so often that you'll be happy never to hear it…
- 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…
- A consumer-finance agency is a good thing, but it would do well to teach consumers a simple lesson: if you don't understand the deal you're…
- Being unemployed is even more disastrous for individuals than you'd expect. Aside from the obvious harm - poverty, difficulty paying off debts - it seems…
- Corporations hope that the right concept will turn things around overnight. This is what you might call the crash-diet approach: starve yourself for a few…
- 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 you thought the advent of the Internet, the spread of cheap and efficient information technology, and the growing fragmentation of the consumer market were…
- If you work for Google or Apple, stock options give you a chance to share in the increasing value of the company. In the N.F.L.,…
- 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 auto industry, there's one thing you can always count on: if a new environmental or safety rule is proposed, executives will prophesy disaster.
- 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…
- Linux is a complex example of the wisdom of crowds. It's a good example in the sense that it shows you can set people to…
- Making loans and fighting poverty are normally two of the least glamorous pursuits around, but put the two together and you have an economic innovation…
- Of course, looking tough on inflation is part of any central banker's job description: if investors believe that inflation is going to get out of…
- The value of a currency is, ultimately, what someone will give you for it - whether in food, fuel, assets, or labor. And that's always…
- To be sure, if you watch CNBC all day long you'll pick up some interesting news about particular companies and the economy as a whole.…
- Workers who come to the U.S. see their wages and their standard of living boosted sharply simply by crossing the border. That's a good thing,…
- 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…
- Sometimes you have to destroy your business in order to save it.
- You might say that economic history is the history of people learning to manage risk.
More You Quotes
- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — 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
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit… — Alexis Arguello
- I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in… — Alexis Arguello
- Haiti, Haiti, the further I am from you, the less I breathe. Haiti, I love you, and I will love you always.… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide