James Surowiecki Quotes

One of the sad truths about leadership is that, the higher up the ladder you travel, the less you know.

It's hard to give advice. There are so many people, how do you give major advice to a group of people, it's very presumptuous.

I certainly don't understand Fox's decision-making process.

People who are great at making decisions in the face of uncertainty have great judgment.

If my mind could gain a firm footing, I would not make essays, I would make decisions; but it is always in apprenticeship and on trial.

The mind gives us thousands of ways to say no, but there's only one way to say yes, and that's from the heart.

There are no simple answers in life. There is a good and bad in everyone and everything. No decision is made without consequence. No road is taken that doesn't lead to another. What's important is that those roads always be kept open, for there's no telling what wonder they might lead to.

You've got to stop going back and forth. You've got to make up your mind.

People like definite decisions, / Tidy answers, all the little ravelings / Snipped off, the lint removed, they / Hop happily among their roughs / Calling what they can't clutch insanity / Or saintliness.

There is no corporation in the world that would, in a competitive environment, try and concentrate all decisions at the corporate level.

It's easy to judge, to think we know for certain the right thing to do. Sometimes, it just isn't so clear.

Do things as soon as you can. If a decision needs to be made, make it. It gives you more time to change your mind.

I'm still making my decision in the next few days on what path I'm going to take. What really makes me excited now is to continue to give back to the sport.

Least of all shall we preserve democracy or foster its growth if all the power and most of the important decisions rest with an organization far too big for the common man to survey or comprehend.

Time...give us enough time and our best-supported decisions will seem wobbly, our certainties whimsical.

Simple it's not, I'm afraid you will find, for a mind maker-upper to make up his mind

you must be careful never to allow doubt to paralyze you. always take the decisions you need to take, even if you're not sure you're doing the right thing. You'll never go wrong if, when you make a decision, you keep in mind an old German proverb: 'The devil is in the detail.' Remember that proverb and you'll always be able to turn a wrong decision into a right one.

The signals we give-yes or no, or maybe-/should be clear/the darkness around us is deep.

True' and 'false' are the evasions of people who never want to arrive at a decision. Truth is something without end.

The decision to give an indicative date for a return is a mistake. It degrades the process. It degrades human life.

I would rather be of clear mind and decision with the wrong club than with an unclear mind and the right club.

I wanted us to share the sense that the number of wrong moves far exceeds the number of good moves, to share the frightening instability of the correct decision, to bond in being confounded.

I never make my mind up about anything at all, until it's over and done with.

In a company where tech decisions were still ultracentralized, the repercussions of a distracted CEO had to be damaging.

The entrepreneurial mind-set is that risk is the heightened probability that there is a big range of possible outcomes.