"In the struggle between capital and labor, more……" — James Surowiecki
"In the struggle between capital and labor, more often than not capital has won, because the real source of value for most companies has historically been the hard assets that they owned and controlled."
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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 Assets Quotes
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People are definitely a company's greatest asset. It doesn't make any difference whether the product is cars or cosmetics. A…
— Mary Kay Ash
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In my role as Wikileaks editor, I've been involved in fighting off many legal attacks. To do that, and keep…
— Julian Assange
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Don't let what you don't know scare you, because it can become your greatest asset. And if you do things…
— Sara Blakely
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The music industry is a strange combination of having real and intangible assets: pop bands are brand names in themselves,…
— Richard Branson
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I believe that a newspaper is a great civic asset and that ownership is best in the hands of foundations…
— Eli Broad
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When Gordon the Brown, in London in 1997, commissioned a great inquisition or survey of his new realm, the result…
— James Buchan
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Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, 'Too much of a good…
— Warren Buffett
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Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn't. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that…
— Warren Buffett
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Housing associations have fingered the fact that they cannot use their assets as liquidity due to Bank of England rules…
— Vince Cable
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Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.
— Winston Churchill
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For far too long the world's poorest people have seen no benefit from the vast natural resources in their own…
— Nick Clegg
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Although women do two-thirds of the world's labor, they own less than one percent of the world's assets.
— Isabel Allende
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