James Surowiecki Way Quotations

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.

Paradoxically, the best way for a group to be smart is for each person in it to think and act as independently as possible.

I do think to some extent multitasking is a way of fooling ourselves that we're being exceptionally efficient.

The typical American corporation is a shareholders' republic the same way that China is a peoples' republic.

A long-term crisis, after a certain point, no longer seems like a crisis. It seems like the way things are.