James Surowiecki Quotes

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

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• In the last 5 years, American employers have lost over $150 billion of productivity to depression alone. That is more than the GDP of 28 different States during the same period.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • Different
  • American
  • Lost

• This is something I've wanted to do my whole life is play baseball, and I think just the opportunity to put on a big-league uniform every day is just... you know, people dream of it, but not everybody gets to do it. I'm thankful every day I get to do it.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • People
  • Life
  • Dream

• Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Humanity
  • Happiness
  • Ugly

• Never judge a person if you don't know him.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • You
  • Know
  • Judge

• To be on the set with the actors, with the location, every day changes; every day something can go wrong.

  

  Olivier Megaton
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Changes

• As far as everyone else's opinion, I mean, if I would have thought that everyone was right, I probably wouldn't have left Compton, so I don't get too caught up on what the next person thinks.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Up
  • Mean
  • Opinion

• It's never been difficult for me to say no. I have never given excuses like I don't have dates. I have never over-quoted to avoid a project. I simply say that while the script might be good, I can't connect with it. My strategy is that while I wouldn't want anyone to waste my time, I shouldn't be doing that, either, with others.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Time
  • Good
  • Strategy

• Everyone should learn to tango in Argentina before they die.

  

  Ian McKeever
  • Die
  • Learn
  • Everyone

• I am a bit prudish, I think. It's hard for me to write about sex, and I don't really care to read about it, either.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Sex
  • Write
  • Read

• Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Creative

• In the time I spent with him, Jurgen Klopp was enigmatic, larger than life, and extremely quick-witted. He is quite unique as a football manager in many ways, and that is what makes him so entertaining.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Life
  • Time
  • Football

• I believe the Thai people are patient, and the people at least give me a chance to prove my ability to help them.

  

  Yingluck Shinawatra
  • People
  • Believe
  • Help

• You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • You
  • Alone
  • Lonely

• My normal life is like being on holiday.

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • Life
  • Holiday
  • Normal

• You have to love your body, respect it, and treat it well.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Love
  • Respect
  • Treat

• Every celebrity in the world, if their movie bombs or whatever, they hold their kid up on a magazine and say, 'I'm really a dad.'

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Up
  • World
  • Movie

• I'm obviously not an advocate of Christian America or a simplistic view of America as 'a city on a hill.'

  

  Os Guinness
  • America
  • City
  • Christian

• I realized in the early days I just didn't edit at all. But I think you become a little more cagey with your lyrics when you know more people are going to hear them and make assumptions about you as a person. Realizing that, you want to be a little more opaque.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • People
  • Want
  • Lyrics

• Genetic Denim gods, if you're listening, please don't rip, and if you have to, maybe you could have an elf from your warehouse send me another pair... I'm a size 28 and its called 'The Twig' in a dark grayish wash... I will wear them until I die, unless those rips beat me to it.

  

  Dawn Olivieri
  • Die
  • Dark
  • Listening

• Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike; each has their suffering. Some suffer too much, others too little.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Suffering
  • Compassion
  • Little

• A strong working relationship requires every participant to be on the same page.

  

  Dinesh Paliwal
  • Strong
  • Relationship

• In show business you learn to let it slide off your back. You know, fuck 'em. Otherwise you'd kill yourself.

  

  John Updike
  • Business

• 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
  • Business