James Surowiecki Quotes About Values

Quotes about: Values

• If you work for Google or Apple, stock options give you a chance to share in the increasing value of the company. In the N.F.L., nothing like this happens; the players, though rich, are just working stiffs like the rest of us.

  James Surowiecki

  Player, Apples, Giving

  "Scrimmage". www.newyorker.com. March 21, 2011.

• In the struggle between capital and labor, more often than not capital has won, because the real source of value for most companies has historically been the hard assets that they owned and controlled.

  James Surowiecki

  Real, Struggle, Assets

  "Net Worth". www.newyorker.com. March 14, 2005.

• The value of a currency is, ultimately, what someone will give you for it - whether in food, fuel, assets, or labor. And that's always and everywhere a subjective decision.

  James Surowiecki

  Giving, Decision, Fuel

  "Why Gold?". www.newyorker.com. November 29, 2004.

• What an economy really wants, after all, is not more investment per se but better investment. It wants capital to flow to companies that will create value - not in the form of a rising stock price but in the form of more goods for less cost, more jobs, and rising wages - by enhancing productivity.

  James Surowiecki

  Jobs, Cost, Wages

• You might think of consumption as a fairly passive activity, but buying new products and services is actually pretty risky, at least if you value your time and money.

  James Surowiecki

  Thinking, Might, Buying

  "Innovative Consumption". www.newyorker.com. May 16, 2011.

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