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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Our number one priority is to spend every peso possible to include those who are currently excluded.
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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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I literally don't think about Oscar.
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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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I'm a big fan of Samantha Bee's.
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'The Names' is planned as a nine-part series. I have a kind of road map: I know the final scene of episode nine. But as to exactly how we get there, what detours or horrible accidents we might have to pass through, I like to keep that a little fluid.
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You may earn whatever money you earn as a cricketer, but you want to play for your country. At the end of the day, you want to do something special. There are plenty of people who earn 50 crores or 100 crores as businessmen or big professionals or who are really doing well in business. But what gives pleasure to your mom and dad is the fame.
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When you're doing that you lose your focus on the discipline of the business, and how you train people at Hamburger University, and everybody gets on a bigger, different vision, and they're not on the same page.
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I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.
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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.
