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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 136 quotes by James Surowiecki James M. Surowiecki Surowiecki speaking in March 2014 Born April 30, 1967 (1967-04-30) (age 47) Meriden, Connecticut, U.S. Nationality American Occupation Journalist James Michael Surowiecki (/ˌsʊəroʊˈwɪkiː/ SOOR-oh-WIK-ee; born April 30, 1967) is an American journalist. He is a staff writer at The New Yorker, where he writes a regular column on business and finance called "The Financial Page". Read full biography of James Surowiecki → 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 ... » Ctrl → Technology is supposed to make our lives easier, allowing us to do things more quickly and efficiently. But too often it seems to make things harder... → 0 When Americans are asked to rank professions in terms of honesty and ethics, insurance agents routinely end up near the bottom of the list -... → 0 The financial crisis of 2008 was not caused by investment banks betting against the housing market in 2007. It was caused by the fact that too few... → 0 Markets work best when there's lots of information available and a historical track record to go on; they excel at predicting things like horse... → 0 The ban on sports betting does exactly what Prohibition did. It makes criminals rich. 0 Life insurance became popular only when insurance companies stopped emphasizing it as a good investment and sold it instead as a symbolic commitment... → 0 In the business world, bad news is usually good news - for somebody else. 0 Steve Jobs was rare: a C.E.O. who actually had a huge impact on his company's fortunes. Contrary to corporate mythology, most C.E.O.s could be... → 0 The essence of procrastination lies in not doing what you think you should be doing, a mental contortion that surely accounts for the great psychic... → 0 In the heart of the Great Depression, millions of American workers did something they'd never done before: they joined a union. Emboldened by the... → 0 If you thought the advent of the Internet, the spread of cheap and efficient information technology, and the growing fragmentation of the consumer... → 0 The desire for reinvention seems to arise most often when companies hear the siren call of synergy and start to expand beyond their core businesses. 0 If being the biggest company was a guarantee of success, we'd all be using IBM computers and driving GM cars. 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 ... » Ctrl → Add a quote!


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136 quotes by James Surowiecki