"The challenge for capitalism is that the things……" — James Surowiecki
"The challenge for capitalism is that the things that breed trust also breed the environment for fraud."
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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 Breed Quotes
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Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.
— Francis Bacon
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There is a breed of fashion models who weigh no more than an abridged dictionary.
— Dave Barry
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I've always thought if we don't want to enforce laws on the books, we should remove them from the books.…
— Michael Bloomberg
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Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
— Emily Bronte
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There is the odd exception, like Albert Einstein, but as a breed, scientists tend not be very good at presenting…
— Bill Bryson
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What, then, is this new man, the American? They are a mixture of English, Scotch, Irish, French, Dutch, Germans, and…
— J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur
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Ungrateful people breed negativity. No one gets any pleasure from giving to an ungrateful person. When you show appreciation, the…
— Paul McCabe
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One of the most fashionable notions of our times is that social problems like poverty and oppression breed wars. Most…
— Thomas Sowell
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I know of no pursuit in which more real and important services can be rendered to any country than by…
— George Washington
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Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.
— Elbert Hubbard
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Old breed? New breed? There's not a damn bit of difference so long as it's the Marine breed.
— Chesty Puller
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Each man must not think only of himself, but also of his buddy fighting beside him. We don't want yellow…
— George S. Patton
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