James Surowiecki Quotes

What corporations fear is the phenomenon now known, rather inelegantly, as 'commoditization.' What the term means is simply the conversion of the market for a given product into a commodity market, which is characterized by declining prices and profit margins, increasing competition, and lowered barriers to entry.

James Surowiecki

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FearCompetitionProfitNowBarriers

Legacy above finances; artistry above fame.

Jimmy Chamberlin

LegacyFameAboveArtistryFinances

I saw many people who had advanced heart disease and I was so frustrated because I knew if they just knew how to do the right thing, simple lifestyle and diet steps, that the entire trajectory of their life and health would have been different.

Mehmet Oz

LifeHeartHealthSimplePeople

When you feel the need to moan and groan, laugh with woeful recognition and eat flaky pastries. If you hear yourself taking the art of complaining a little too seriously, ask yourself what you're trying to accomplish, exactly.

Amity Gaige

ArtYourselfLaughRecognitionYou

It's no good being talented and not being in the right place at the right time.

Roger Moore

GoodTimePlaceRight TimeRight

I still viewed myself as a reviewer when I was on radio. Was it appropriate for me? I think the answer is it's only inappropriate if I allowed it to affect my film reviewing. I don't think you will find any studio that said, 'Yeah, he went easy on us because he was shopping a script.'

Rod Lurie

MyselfMeShoppingThinkYouFind

The songs were there before the band was there, and it's my songs. And it's like, we're not in the 1950s. We can't call ourselves, like, 'The Revolvers' - it just doesn't work that way. And 'The Lukas Graham Band' just sounded wrong.

Lukas Forchhammer

WorkWrongWayBand1950sCall

I've had a chance to fly a lot of different airplanes, but it was nothing like the shuttle ride.

Chris Hadfield

RideFlyChanceNothingDifferent

As a head-hunter I get a lot of satisfaction from seeing my candidates do well and therefore my clients happy. I want to work with clients more as a partner than simply a head-hunter.

Bruce Bennett

WorkHappyPartnerSeeingWantMore

The humility keeps me going forward.

Brian Tyree Henry

HumilityMeForwardGoingKeeps

In Soviet times, the border was closed, so we couldn't get out of the country, and I had been reading Robinson Crusoe. I wanted to see the ocean, I wanted to see boats, I wanted to see black people, because we didn't have that in the Soviet Union. I was all excited by that stuff.

Wladimir Klitschko

OceanPeopleReadingBorderBlack

Well the country songs themselves are three-chord stories, ballads which are mostly sad. If you are already feeling sorry for yourself when you listen to them they will take you to an even sadder place.

Willie Nelson

SadYourselfSorryYouPlaceWill

Every generation that comes from this family has to do better than the last.

Tinie Tempah

FamilyGenerationBetterLastThan

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