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The fact that industries wax and wane is a reality of any economic system that wants to remain dynamic and responsive to people's changing tastes.
— James Surowiecki
The business of America shouldn't be subsidizing business.
— James Surowiecki
Moviegoers love the intricacies of a crime all the more when it's for a good cause.
— James Surowiecki
In confusing stock options with ownership, corporations confuse trappings with substance.
— James Surowiecki
In the business world, bad news is usually good news - for somebody else.
— James Surowiecki
Capitalism, after all, is no fun when real failure becomes a possibility.
— James Surowiecki
If private-equity firms are as good at remaking companies as they claim, they don't need tax loopholes to make money.
— James Surowiecki
Besides great climates and lovely beaches, California and Greece share a fondness for dysfunctional politics and feckless budgeting.
— James Surowiecki
Pop music thrives on repetition. You know a song's a hit when you've heard it so often that you'll be happy never to hear it again.
— James Surowiecki
I do think to some extent multitasking is a way of fooling ourselves that we're being exceptionally efficient.
— James Surowiecki
You might say that economic history is the history of people learning to manage risk.
— James Surowiecki
The challenge for capitalism is that the things that breed trust also breed the environment for fraud.
— James Surowiecki
Companies, like people, don't much like to change.
— James Surowiecki
The U.S. is excellent at importing cheap products from the rest of the world. Let's try importing some human capital instead.
— James Surowiecki
The important thing about groupthink is that it works not so much by censoring dissent as by making dissent seem somehow improbable.
— James Surowiecki
Breaking tasks down into smaller sub-tasks can be very useful.
— James Surowiecki
Paradoxically, the best way for a group to be smart is for each person in it to think and act as independently as possible.
— James Surowiecki
Of the various kinds of intelligence, generosity is the first. Gienka Home from the Ball Bearing Plant (1943) — John Surowiecki
What the investment community does like is short-term measures designed to boost share prices.
— James Surowiecki
Patrimonial capitalism's legacy is that many people see reform as a euphemism for corruption and self-dealing.
— James Surowiecki
If companies tell us more, insider trading will be worth less.
— James Surowiecki
The problem is that groups are only smart when the people in them are as independent as possible. This is the paradox of the wisdom of crowds.
— James Surowiecki
Traditionally, tours were a means of promoting a record. Today, the record promotes the tour.
— James Surowiecki
On Wall Street, fraudulent schemes tend to thrive during economic booms, and to blow up when times turn tough.
— James Surowiecki
Of course, presidents are always blamed or rewarded for the state of the economy.
— James Surowiecki
In American politics, 'Europe' is usually a code word for 'big government.'
— James Surowiecki
Art collecting has traditionally been the domain of wealthy individuals in search of rewards beyond the purely financial.
— James Surowiecki
In part because individual judgement is not accurate enough or consistent enough, cognitive diversity is essential to good decision making.
— James Surowiecki
A long-term crisis, after a certain point, no longer seems like a crisis. It seems like the way things are.
— James Surowiecki
Republicans like to indict Democrats as anti-corporate zealots.
— James Surowiecki
Developing countries often have hypertrophied bureaucracies, requiring businesses to deal with enormous amounts of red tape.
— James Surowiecki
Sometimes even a smart crowd will make a mistake.
— James Surowiecki
The autocracies of the Arab world have been as economically destructive as they've been politically repressive.
— James Surowiecki
You can't be rich unless everyone else agrees that you're rich.
— James Surowiecki
The oil market is especially sensitive even to a hint of expansion or contraction in supply.
— James Surowiecki
Under the right circumstances, groups are remarkably smart - smarter even sometimes than the smartest people in them.
— James Surowiecki
All things being equal, letting people make decisions for themselves will produce smarter outcomes, collectively, than relying on government planners.
— James Surowiecki
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.
— James Surowiecki
If being the biggest company was a guarantee of success, we'd all be using IBM computers and driving GM cars.
— James Surowiecki
The problem with venality in business is that getting outraged about it makes it easy to miss the systemic problems that venality often disguises.
— James Surowiecki
You can't fuel real economic growth with indiscriminate credit. You can only fuel it with well-allocated, long-term investment.
— James Surowiecki
We assume that good-looking people are smarter and more effective than they really are, and that homely people are the reverse.
— James Surowiecki
Companies often become victims of their own mythologies.
— James Surowiecki
Most corporate name changes are the result of mergers and acquisitions. But these tend to be unimaginative.
— James Surowiecki
In conditions of uncertainty, humans, like other animals, herd together for protection.
— James Surowiecki
Older people do a better job of managing their impulses, and so they're better able to put off putting off.
— James Surowiecki
Most of the work on multitasking suggests that it generally makes you less efficient, not more.
— James Surowiecki
There does seem to be some evidence that as people get older, they procrastinate less, perhaps because they feel the pressure of time more.
— James Surowiecki
Movies' mistrust of capitalism is almost as old as the medium itself.
— James Surowiecki
The stock market has an insidious effect on C.E.O.s' moods, because of its impact not just on their companies but on their own bank accounts.
— James Surowiecki
I tend to delay writing by doing more research - it's really the act of writing the piece that I have the hardest time with.
— James Surowiecki
The typical American corporation is a shareholders' republic the same way that China is a peoples' republic.
— James Surowiecki
In order to work well, markets need a basic level of trust.
— James Surowiecki
Congressional Republicans themselves have vehemently defended the idea that preexisting conditions should not be used to deny people insurance.
— James Surowiecki
One key to successful group decisions is getting people to pay much less attention to what everyone else is saying.
— James Surowiecki
The profit motive, indecorous though it may seem, may represent the best chance the poor have to reap some of globalization's benefits.
— James Surowiecki
Sometimes you have to destroy your business in order to save it.
— James Surowiecki
Wall Street has come a long way from the insider-dominated world that was blown apart by the Great Depression.
— James Surowiecki
There's no debt limit in the Constitution.
— James Surowiecki
Of course, plenty of people don't think that guaranteeing affordable health insurance is a core responsibility of government.
— James Surowiecki
In the auto industry, there's one thing you can always count on: if a new environmental or safety rule is proposed, executives will prophesy disaster.
— James Surowiecki
It may be, in the end, that a good society is defined more by how people treat strangers than by how they treat those they know.
— James Surowiecki
The ban on sports betting does exactly what Prohibition did. It makes criminals rich.
— James Surowiecki
