Top 134 Quotes by James Surowiecki

If being the biggest company was a guarantee of success, we'd all be using IBM computers and driving GM cars.

Political risk is hard to manage because so much comes down to the personal choices of policymakers, whether prime ministers or heads of central banks.

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

You can't be rich unless everyone else agrees that you're rich.

A long-term crisis, after a certain point, no longer seems like a crisis. It seems like the way things are.

You might say that economic history is the history of people learning to manage risk.

Art collecting has traditionally been the domain of wealthy individuals in search of rewards beyond the purely financial.

All things being equal, letting people make decisions for themselves will produce smarter outcomes, collectively, than relying on government planners.

Defense contractors are able to reap tremendous profits while rarely confronting the risks for which those profits are supposed to be the reward.

We assume that good-looking people are smarter and more effective than they really are, and that homely people are the reverse.