Top 134 Quotes by James Surowiecki

About James Surowiecki

These are some quotes by American author James Surowiecki Journalist, who was born in 1967.

Unlike fuel-economy standards, the most common method of reducing demand for oil over the past thirty years, a gas tax doesn't tell people what kind of car to drive. It simply raises the price of gasoline and lets people adjust their behavior accordingly.

James Surowiecki

There's no debt limit in the Constitution.

There's no debt limit in the Constitution.

James Surowiecki

Under the right circumstances, groups are remarkably smart - smarter even sometimes than the smartest people in them.

Under the right circumstances, groups are remarkably smart - smarter even sometimes than the smartest people in them.

James Surowiecki

The stock market has an insidious effect on C.E.O.s' moods, because of its impact not just on their companies but on their own bank accounts.

The stock market has an insidious effect on C.E.O.s' moods, because of its impact not just on their companies but on their own bank accounts.

James Surowiecki

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

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

James Surowiecki

If you thought the advent of the Internet, the spread of cheap and efficient information technology, and the growing fragmentation of the consumer market were all going to help smaller companies thrive at the expense of the slow-moving giants of the Fortune 500, apparently you were wrong.

James Surowiecki

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

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

James Surowiecki

The fundamental problem with banks is what it's always been: they're in the business of banking, and banking, whether plain vanilla or incredibly sophisticated, is inherently risky.

The fundamental problem with banks is what it's always been: they're in the business of banking, and banking, whether plain vanilla or incredibly sophisticated, is inherently risky.

James Surowiecki

Corporate welfare isn't necessarily a bad thing.

Corporate welfare isn't necessarily a bad thing.

James Surowiecki

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

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

James Surowiecki

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