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.
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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.
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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.
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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I've raised Michael. I changed his diapers when he was little.
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Never judge a person if you don't know him.
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To be on the set with the actors, with the location, every day changes; every day something can go wrong.
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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.
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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.
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Everyone should learn to tango in Argentina before they die.
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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.
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Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.
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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.
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I believe the Thai people are patient, and the people at least give me a chance to prove my ability to help them.
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You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.
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My normal life is like being on holiday.
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You have to love your body, respect it, and treat it well.
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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.'
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The common law of chattels, that is to say, the law ultimately adopted by the King's courts for the regulation of disputes about the ownership and possession of goods, was, to be a substantial extent, a by-product of that new procedure which had been mainly introduced to perfect the feudal scheme of land law.
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Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional business and retail lending activities as banks try to rebuild their balance sheets. This was one aspect of modern financial liberalisation that had dire consequences.
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I didn't start my label out of a business perspective. I did it because I wanted to create a platform where new musicians can have the chance to get into a studio, work with each other, and get their music noticed by a large audience.
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When I got into the music business in 1976, there weren't many women on the roster. As a woman, you don't complain; you work twice as hard, and you do your job.
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I have never had a great love of the music business, I never have.
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The problem with venality in business is that getting outraged about it makes it easy to miss the systemic problems that venality often disguises.
