"Although oil is a commodity, it's still not……" — James Surowiecki
"Although oil is a commodity, it's still not a commodity like coffee, which, thank God, we will have with us always. At some point the oil will run out."
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150 Quotes by James Surowiecki
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Auto repair, piloting, skiing, perhaps even management: these are skills that yield to application, hard work, and native talent. But…
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Lack of confidence, sometimes alternating with unrealistic dreams of heroic success, often leads to procrastination, and many studies suggest that…
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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…
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Bubbles and crashes are textbook examples of collective decision making gone wrong. In a bubble, all of the conditions that…
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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…
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Diversity and independence are important because the best collective decisions are the product of disagreement and contest, not consensus or…
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Groups are only smart when there is a balance between the information that everyone in the group shares and the…
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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…
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Paradoxically, the best way for a group to be smart is for each person in it to think and act…
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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.…
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The fact that cognitive diversity matters does not mean that if you assemble a group of diverse but thoroughly uninformed…
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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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More Coffee Quotes
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I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before that, whenever…
— Bella Abzug
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In the morning we received some very thin coffee. For lunch we had potato soup with a few pieces of…
— Leon Askin
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I have walked into the palaces of kings and queens and into the houses of presidents. And much more. But…
— Josephine Baker
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Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second.
— Edward Abbey
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Eating rice cakes is like chewing on a foam coffee cup, only less filling.
— Dave Barry
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Almost all my middle-aged and elderly acquaintances, including me, feel about 25, unless we haven't had our coffee, in which…
— Martha Beck
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I served seven years as the chair of the Princeton economics department where I had responsibility for major policy decisions,…
— Ben Bernanke
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I like coffee because it gives me the illusion that I might be awake.
— Lewis Black
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Coffee and smoking are the last great addictions.
— Lara Flynn Boyle
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I gave up coffee. It's almost worse than giving up a lover.
— Sandra Bullock
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I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I…
— Jim Carrey
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When I was 6 years old, I was in a rock band that was horrible called 'Dead End.' The name…
— Aaron Carter
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