"Instead of mindlessly tossing billions at or taking……" — James Surowiecki
"Instead of mindlessly tossing billions at or taking billions from the Net as such, investors should be spending their time making sure that it's the future Fords and General Motors of cyberspace that are getting the capital they need."
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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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Confronting a stadium audience, you can't see the whites of their eyes. It's just an amorphous mass of noise and,…
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After the $700 billion bailout, the trillion-dollar stimulus, and the massive budget bill with over 9,000 earmarks, many of you…
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There are millions and billions of atoms of memory of all kinds of musical themes in me.
— Erykah Badu
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Eugene is located in western Oregon, approximately 278 billion miles from anything.
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The new discovery of a 3.3 billion barrel oil deposit off Norway's coast cements that nation's claim to being Europe's…
— Bob Beauprez
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Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around…
— Samantha Bee
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Folks, you're the reason that the automobile industry is back. Whether it was the wage freezes, the plant closures, folks,…
— Joe Biden
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A father and two sons run Adelphia. It's a cable company. And they took from that company a billion dollars.…
— Lewis Black
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If you want to be a Millionaire, start with a billion dollars and launch a new airline.
— Richard Branson
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Why should a great and powerful nation like the United States allow its relationship with more than a billion Muslims…
— John O. Brennan
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Big government conservatives are spending trillions and wasting billions. Republicans are no longer the party of fiscal conservancy, but the…
— Sherrod Brown
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With an annual investment of $66 billion by 2007, we can save 8 million lives each year.
— Gro Harlem Brundtland
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