James Surowiecki Quotes

In order to work well, markets need a basic level of trust.

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• Maybe 10 times a year I'll do a corporate date, but no casinos or no nightclubs or no comedy clubs.

  

  Gabe Kaplan
  • Comedy
  • Year
  • Corporate

• Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • May
  • Know
  • Same

• The artistic part of us all - I think that the easiest way to appreciate this - is through architecture. Architecture is very impressive; the beauty of buildings, temples.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Think
  • Beauty
  • Architecture

• The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Science

• Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • Want
  • Control
  • Leadership

• There aren't a whole lot of things I want out of life. My bucket list is extremely short: Achieve the success in the industry I want, and get married. If I achieve both of those, I can die completely stoked. I don't need anything else.

  

  Samuel Larsen
  • Life
  • Success
  • Die

• Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.

  

  Sally Pearson
  • Myself
  • Winning
  • Gold

• We believed that to understand literature, you had to understand its place in history and culture.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • History
  • Culture
  • Literature

• I've always been singing. Since day one. I started doing musical theater and you have to sing in musical theater and so that's where I got most of my training. So singing on stage, you just inevitably, when you're around other vocal artists, you get better at singing.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Day
  • Singing
  • Training

• My father became the Mayor of Indian Wells, California, a tony desert enclave of rich, conservative Republicans.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • Father
  • California
  • Rich

• I wish I wasn't so in love, wasn't so interested, in the Internet. I wish I spent less time online and more time outside and in my head. Writing requires solitude and deep, deep daydreaming, and the Internet just kills that - its lure is toward the external; it asks you to flit from place to place.

  

  Edan Lepucki
  • Time
  • Place
  • Interested

• We do a lot of outbound work where we're talking about the future. As we get involved with these new products, it helps us have a platform to talk about where the future is going.

  

  Parker Harris
  • Work
  • Future
  • New

• For the first time in the history of Bihar, I provided a stable government. Despite being denied funds by the Centre, Bihar survived on its resources. I provided pucca dwellings to half a million Dalit families.

  

  Lalu Prasad Yadav
  • Time
  • History
  • Government

• I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Political
  • Talk
  • Matters

• If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.

  

  Abigail Adams
  • Women
  • Mean
  • Heroes

• I don't sleep well. I rehash everything in bed. The mind's still working.

  

  Hale Irwin
  • Mind
  • Sleep
  • Bed

• If you would attract good fortune, you must get rid of doubt. As long as that stands between you and your ambition, it will be a bar that will cut you off. You must have faith. No man can make a fortune while he is convinced that he can't.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Good
  • Long
  • Man

• I don't want to spend my whole life watching the sun go down behind the left field bleachers.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Life
  • Want
  • Sun

• For me, healthy eating and exercising is something I work on constantly. I'm not the most disciplined dieter. I try to eat a lot of fruit and vegetables but sometimes late at night I tend to have fast-food meals - and that's where I get myself into trouble! So I'm not in the best shape I could be, but I'm still healthy and comfy.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Work
  • Night
  • Food

• I spend a lot of time in my bed. It's a good comfy one with a tartan bedspread. It's the only place I can read without straining my neck, and I take an afternoon nap, which is my reward for making enough money from my writing now not to have to work. I never get up in the morning before 11.30.

  

  Martin Millar
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• The biggest problem in South Africa is that we have a disrupted timeline. Historically, politically, spiritually, economically, in people's minds, in people's heads.

  

  Abdullah Ibrahim
  • People
  • Problem
  • Africa

• Consumers going through foreclosure typically will see their credit scores drop, raising longer-term questions about their ability to rebound financially and perhaps pursue a more sustainable home purchase at some later point.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Home
  • Ability
  • Consumers

• In order to work well, markets need a basic level of trust.

  

  James Surowiecki
  • Work
  • Trust