"In American politics, 'Europe' is usually a code……" — James Surowiecki

"In American politics, 'Europe' is usually a code word for 'big government.'"

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…
Lack of confidence, sometimes alternating with unrealistic dreams of heroic success, often leads to procrastination, and many studies suggest that…
It's a familiar truism that at any one moment, financial markets are dominated by either fear or greed. But the…
Bubbles and crashes are textbook examples of collective decision making gone wrong. In a bubble, all of the conditions that…
If small groups are included in the decision-making process, then they should be allowed to make decisions. If an organization…
Diversity and independence are important because the best collective decisions are the product of disagreement and contest, not consensus or…
Groups are only smart when there is a balance between the information that everyone in the group shares and the…
But, if recent history has taught us anything, it’s that self-regulation doesn’t work in finance, and that worries about reputation…
Paradoxically, the best way for a group to be smart is for each person in it to think and act…
This intelligence, or what I'll call "the wisdom of crowds," is at work in the world in many different guises.…
The fact that cognitive diversity matters does not mean that if you assemble a group of diverse but thoroughly uninformed…
One key to successful group decisions is getting people to pay much less attention to what everyone else is saying.

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