James Surowiecki Quotes

In confusing stock options with ownership, corporations confuse trappings with substance.

James Surowiecki

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• Instead of waiting until the holiday season - when mail solicitations flood in from worthy organizations - and making a flurry of gifts because this is the time of year to give, sit down and take stock. Identify your passion, learn about it, and direct your time, mind, and dollars to aligned causes and organizations.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Passion

• I just like to keep my money in the bank; I'm not a big risk-taker. I don't know anything about the stock market... I stay away from things I don't know anything about.

  

  Wayne Gretzky
  • Money
  • Know
  • Risk

• Well, actually, I manage a couple of stock portfolios or funds or whatever you want to call 'em, and I think I've done relatively well with them.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Done
  • Think
  • Want

• You can't ask your pharmacist to stock larger quantities of potassium nitrate because you want to make a bigger rocket.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • Want
  • You
  • Stock

• It has become cheaper to look for oil on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange than in the ground.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • New
  • New York
  • Stock

• At their worst, message boards can subject you to mindless braying or outright stock scams. But at their best, they provide meaty insights on just about every stock imaginable.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • You
  • Best
  • Stock

• My mom lived by herself with two kids. Sacrifice was the name of the game at our house.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Kids
  • Game
  • House

• We have this culture of financialization. People think they need to make money with their savings rather with their own business. So you end up with dentists who are more traders than dentists. A dentist should drill teeth and use whatever he does in the stock market for entertainment.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • People
  • Up
  • Money

• A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Growth
  • Search
  • Stock

• When you get billions in aid and your weapons resupplied and your ammunition stock resupplied, you don't learn the lesson that war is bad and nobody wins.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • War
  • Bad
  • Learn

• Traditionally, the sample is always better than the stock you deliver to the store.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • You
  • Always
  • Better

• The collective unconscious consists of the sum of the instincts and their correlates, the archetypes. Just as everybody possesses instincts, so he also possesses a stock of archetypal images.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Just
  • Stock
  • Instincts

• When I was racing, I had learned that you can't set stock in public adoration or your press clippings. By the time I was 26, I'd heard crowds of 100,000 scream my name, but a week later they couldn't remember who I was. You're a hero today and a bum tomorrow - hero to zero, I sometimes say.

  

  Eddie Rickenbacker
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Today

• The media and marketing deluge has spawned a new type of Wall Street loser: the armchair momentum player. These are novice investors who engage in short-term stock buying and selling based on media reports or an expert's enthusiasm.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Player
  • Wall
  • Media

• In addition to a soaring stock market, 6.6 million jobs have been created since tax relief measures went into effect in 2003. Our deficit situation has also improved as tax revenues have increased at double-digit rates over the past two years.

  

  Randy Neugebauer
  • Past
  • Stock
  • Tax

• I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Money
  • Day
  • Stock

• At the first rumors of war, timid investors in various government stock, being panic-stricken, sell out, to their loss and the gamblers' gain.

  

  Randal Cremer
  • War
  • Government
  • Stock

• Whenever you try to pick market tops and bottoms, you are making a prediction. Guessing what stock is going to outperform the market is forecasting, as is selling a stock for no apparent reason. Indeed, nearly all capital decisions made by most people are unconscious predictions.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • People
  • Try
  • Decisions

• Until women learn to want economic independence, and until they work out a way to get this independence without denying themselves the joys of love and motherhood, it seems to me feminism has no roots.

  

  Crystal Eastman
  • Work
  • Women
  • Motherhood

• Acting careers are very interesting things. They come with a lot of ups and downs. You just have to ride the waves and bide your time during the lulls, and enjoy the high times when they're there.

  

  Pablo Schreiber
  • Time
  • High
  • Interesting

• And we danced;Out there on that empty hardwood floor.The chairs up and the lights turned way down lowThe music played, we held each other close.And we danced.Like no one else had ever danced before.I can't explain what happened on that floor.But the music played,We held each other close,And we danced.Yeah, we danced.

  

  Brad Paisley
  • Up
  • Music

• Gentl, I am a party man. I believe that, without party, Parliamentary government is impossible. I look upon Parliamentary government as the noblest government in the world, and certainly the one most suited to England.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli
  • World
  • Believe
  • Party

• Acting can be a difficult business. When I was younger, if my mates were doing better than me, I might be a little bit envious, but as I have got older, I love to see actors cracking on and succeeding. The same goes for writers.

  

  Max Beesley Incognito
  • Business

• In confusing stock options with ownership, corporations confuse trappings with substance.

  

  James Surowiecki
  • Stock