James Surowiecki Quotes

Critics of consumer capitalism like to think that consumers are manipulated and controlled by those who seek to sell them things, but for the most part it's the other way around: companies must make what consumers want and deliver it at the lowest possible price.

James Surowiecki

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America became great through immigrants... I hope that this great country will recall what has made it great.

Joe Kaeser

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When I first came to Congress, the party was supposed to help you. Now, when a new member is sworn in, he or she is told what their dues are - how much they are expected to raise for the party for the next election. It's worse in the Senate. It turns the whole place into a money machine.

Jim Cooper

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The West is color. Its colors are animal rather than vegetable, the colors of earth and sunlight and ripeness.

Jessamyn West

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It's difficult sometimes when you have somebody who is of a different culture trying to make light of something that is maybe not quite something that they understand.

Michael Chang

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There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.

Anais Nin

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Your legal career is but a means to an end, and... that end is building the kingdom of God.

Amy Coney Barrett

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I like 'X-Files'-type shows with government conspiracies and extraterrestrials and all that.

Mike McCready

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As an actor, you're constantly riddled with self-doubt. You are your own worst critic.

Michelle Fairley

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To a certain extent, I have to be the president's bad cop from time to time. I have to look people in the eye and tell them, 'No, we don't have enough money for that.' That is not a very popular thing to do in Washington.

Mick Mulvaney

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The greatest part of the job was... that was for nine years it was a pleasure to go to work.

Jason Alexander

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I don't feel as though I've graduated from commercials or music videos. In my mind, they aren't compartmentalised.

Jonathan Glazer

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When it comes down to it, I believe that, having made the decision to bring children into the world, I owe it to them to be as present as I can in their daily lives and to try my best to stay alive until they've made it through to adulthood.

Deborah Copaken Kogan

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