"The truth is that the United States doesn't……" — James Surowiecki
"The truth is that the United States doesn't need, and shouldn't have, a debt ceiling. Every other democratic country, with the exception of Denmark, does fine without one."
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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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More Ceiling Quotes
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I think it's important that people know what raising the debt ceiling is. It's Congress giving permission to the federal…
— Michele Bachmann
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I don't do what I do to try and break a glass ceiling.
— Kathryn Bigelow
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Raising the debt ceiling is not additional spending. It is simply saying, you, the United States of America, can continue…
— Jay Carney
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Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The Paleolithic hunters who painted the unsurpassed animal murals on the ceiling of the cave at Altamira had only rudimentary…
— Eric Hoffer
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One of the principles we teach in our programs is "If you shoot for the stars, you'll at least hit…
— T. Harv Eker
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Your mind has a way of putting limitations on your goals. When you persevere, you develop character. Nobody knows their…
— Paul Molitor
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Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right
— Aldous Huxley
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We first got marijuana from an older drummer with another group in Liverpool. We didn't actually try it until after…
— George Harrison
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From depression to ceiling fans, I've been through it all. I've taken almost every step that life has to offer…
— Corey Taylor
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I have never heard a dancer asking for advice about how to stay focused on her footwork, or a painter…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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The president says we need to raise the debt ceiling because America pays its bills. No if we paid our…
— Peter Schiff
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