James Surowiecki Quotes About Risk

Quotes about: Risk

• Lack of confidence, sometimes alternating with unrealistic dreams of heroic success, often leads to procrastination, and many studies suggest that procrastinators are self-handicappers: rather than risk failure, they prefer to create conditions that make success impossible, a reflex that of course creates a vicious cycle.

  James Surowiecki

  Dream, Procrastination, Self

  "Later" by James Surowiecki, www.newyorker.com. October 11, 2010.

• Defense contractors are able to reap tremendous profits while rarely confronting the risks for which those profits are supposed to be the reward.

  James Surowiecki

  Risk, Defense, Rewards

• Political risk is hard to manage because so much comes down to the personal choices of policymakers, whether prime ministers or heads of central banks.

  James Surowiecki

  Choices, Political, Risk

  "The Age of Political Risk". www.newyorker.com. May 24, 2010.

• When all is said and done, cheap gas is an illusion, because our reliance on gas creates a whole series of costs that aren't factored in to the pump price - among them congestion, pollution, and increased risk of accidents.

  James Surowiecki

  Risk, Cost, Done

  "Pump Pressure". www.newyorker.com. September 26, 2005.

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