"You can't fuel real economic growth with indiscriminate……" — James Surowiecki

"You can't fuel real economic growth with indiscriminate credit. You can only fuel it with well-allocated, long-term investment."

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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…
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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We all must recognize that homeland security funds should be allocated by threat and no other reason. — Michael Bloomberg
With a nation at war against terrorism and our men and women on the front line defending our homeland from… — Jeff Miller
The country is now universally recognised as a nation on the move and takes its place amongst the successful economies… — Ratan Tata
When politics are used to allocate resources, the resources all end up being allocated to politics. — P.J. O'Rourke
Imposition of the death penalty is arbitrary and capricious. Decision of who will live and who will die for his… — Gerald Heaney
So much were employers of wage-labor unenthusiastic about proletarianization that, in addition to fostering the gender age division of labor,… — Immanuel Wallerstein
All things happen in their proper time. Everything in life happens in the time allocated for it. Don't waste energy… — James Van Praagh
From the Bush Administration to the 9-11 Commission, there is an urgent and universally recognized need to change the broken… — Vito Fossella
The survival rate of Dr Burton's patients approximately doubled the maximum survival rate of conventionally treated patients. Had these findings… — Jared Diamond
Require... electoral votes to be allocated in proportion to the popular votes — Robert A. Dahl
One year of the world’s military spending equals 700 years of the U.N. budget and equals 2,928 years of the… — Zainab Salbi
Theres no particular relationship between spending and educational results. Most education spending is actually on salaries, and thats allocated according… — Peter Brimelow

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