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If someone really wants my company's business, why shouldn't he be able to do everything he can - including paying me off - to get that business? Because bribery encourages people to make decisions based on the wrong criteria, which means in the business world that it distorts the efficient allocation of resources.


James Surowiecki

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JAMES DYE The terrible fluidity of self-revelation.
HENRY JAMES Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
WILLIAM JAMES You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.
JAMES JOYCE It is necessary to be slightly under employed if you are to do something significant.
JAMES WATSON There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.
WILLIAM JAMES Deep experience is never peaceful.
HENRY JAMES The fatal futility of Fact.
HENRY JAMES I can't say I haven't lied but I can say that I lied to tell the truth.
JAMES DYE The great difference between present-day Christianity and that of which we read in these letters is ...
JAMES PHILLIPS It is not something I must do but something I want to do
JAMES FIXX Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be con...
WILLIAM JAMES It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaste...
WILLIAM JAMES As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.
WILLIAM JAMES The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.
JAMES BRYCE The Theory of Groups is a branch of mathematics in which one does something to something and then co...
JAMES NEWMAN Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
HENRY JAMES Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.
JAMES THURBER Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them ...
JAMES BUCKHAM If you want a quality, act as if you already had it. Try the as if technique.
WILLIAM JAMES Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world, a mother's love is not.
JAMES JOYCE The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a sai...
JAMES FENTON Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and le...
JAMES BARRIE