James Surowiecki Quotes

On the simplest level, telecommuting makes it harder for people to have the kinds of informal interactions that are crucial to the way knowledge moves through an organization. The role that hallway chat plays in driving new ideas has become a cliche of business writing, but that doesn't make it less true.

James Surowiecki

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Airbnb has grown thanks to our hosts creating memorable experiences and inspiring their guests to be hosts in their hometowns.

Joe Gebbia

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I never envisioned myself as a solo artist; I was always part of a band.

Jenny Lewis

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The myth of the Kennedys - and the hold - was always the hold of the renegade rich, out there on the frontier beyond accountability.

John Gregory Dunne

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It's not all the time, but you get a sense when you're reading something that it's no longer about boxing or the performance. It's personal.

Andre Ward

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One's ability to enter into thousands of lawsuits as a tool for success, or to use bankruptcy to avoid paying your former employees and vendors, have little relevance when trying to create good government.

John Hickenlooper

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I am like many of the women I have played onscreen.

Maureen O'Hara

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I could not understand how it could move under its own power. And when it had driven past me, without even thinking why I found myself chasing it down the road, as hard as I could run.

Soichiro Honda

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My mum was a music teacher. I've got three sisters, and we all played instruments when we were kids.

Tom Ellis

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In college, I tried to start wrestling as soon as I could and when it was available to me, as I loved competing, and then got into MMA under Pat Miletich, where I was able to sharpen all my skills and develop into a true fighter.

Robbie Lawler

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I think our 'Reno' cops are, basically, if you made us make fun of ourselves at a party. That is what we would do. We would do those characters and not really think about it. We didn't develop the characters; everyone just put on a name tag and started improvising.

Robert Ben Garant

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I never really did years of movie-after-movie-after-movie but when you've got three toddlers in the house you're performing all day long, anyway, with puppet shows and stories - I act around the clock.

Julia Roberts

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The most disastrous phenomenon of the current situation is the factor that imperialism is employing for its own ends all the powers of the proletariat, all of its institutions and weapons, which its fighting vanguard has created for its war of liberation.

Clara Zetkin

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