James Surowiecki Quotes

Standards wars involve lots of variables, and understanding them often seems more an art than a science. They generally involve just two big players, and end in a winner-take-all situation.

James Surowiecki

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I have a photographic memory for numbers.

Jim Irsay

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If you look down a barrel of a gun... you don't forget it.

Melvin Van Peebles

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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind.

Max Eastman

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If you are a lawyer, and you want to take on easier cases, you can prosecute traffic violations or something. You'd have a very high rate of success, and you probably could sleep more easily at night. But that's not what drives me.

Amal Clooney

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I'm very much engaged in the political battles. But I'm doing it as a supporter of Republicans... rather than as an active candidate.

Mitt Romney

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You look after yourself. You believe in God. And if people want to drag you down, you fight that, and you keep on fighting.

Mohamed Al-Fayed

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I'm not intimidated by how people perceive me.

Dolly Parton

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I suspect that we might actually start selling some records with these artists in about 10 years. Some the people who invested, they're a little tight-because it's a lot of money to start up a company.

Branford Marsalis

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Manila is like a small New York. Nothing works, and everybody's out to get the better of you.

Brigitte Nielsen

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Everyone remembers the winner; nobody remembers who finishes second. But quite a lot, I seem to be right around the hunt with nine holes to play.

Brooks Koepka

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My priority will always be my performance more than anything associated with a film. I always look forward to give my best to the character I play on screen.

Anushka Shetty

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