"Besides great climates and lovely beaches, California and……" — James Surowiecki
"Besides great climates and lovely beaches, California and Greece share a fondness for dysfunctional politics and feckless budgeting."
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150 Quotes by James Surowiecki
James Surowiecki has 150 quotes on this site.
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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 Beach Quotes
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You all want to know what is my dream? Very simple. To walk along the beach, holding the hand of…
— Michelle Bachelet
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And I was in another band called Flash In The Pan, which was soca, Latin music, down in Laguna Beach.
— Travis Barker
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I pray to be like the ocean, with soft currents, maybe waves at times. More and more, I want the…
— Drew Barrymore
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I typically enjoy a beautiful beach destination, as I find the water and sand to be the most replenishing.
— Elizabeth Berkley
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The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood,…
— Henry Beston
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I would like to play Pebble Beach at some point. I keep waiting for them to call and ask me…
— Lewis Black
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I went through a mod and goth-phase when I decided that I wouldn't ever be the bronzed beach-bunny. I started…
— Cate Blanchett
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On vacations: We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off our skin, the saltwater off…
— Erma Bombeck
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I have always put my own money into Tails of Joy. For years, every time a dog walked by, my…
— Elayne Boosler
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It's very hard to respect people on holiday - everybody looks so silly at the beach, it makes you hate…
— Alain de Botton
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I learned with 'The Beach' that I'm a bit better lower down the radar.
— Danny Boyle
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Miami Beach is where neon goes to die.
— Lenny Bruce
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