Jerry Z. Muller
[Georg] Simmel recognized that the freedom of the liberal capitalist state is not a good in and of itself. Freedom without a sense of direction and purpose breeds boredom and restlessness.
Content: Quotation | Source: The Wilson Quarterly | Subjects: Capitalism, Organizational Behavior
Jerry Z. Muller
[Georg Simmel] observed that capitalist competition doesn’t just involve those who compete; it’s a struggle for the affection (or money) of a third party. In order to succeed, the competitor must discover the wishes of that third party.
Content: Quotation | Source: The Wilson Quarterly | Subjects: Capitalism, Economics
Jerry Z. Muller
It’s a commonplace that there are some things money can’t buy. [Georg] Simmel had a more striking insight: Having money can actually be more satisfying than having the things money can buy. That’s because…money has a “surplus value.” A person with money enjoys the added satisfaction of having a choice of things to buy: “The value of a given amount of money is equal to … [ Read more ]
Content: Quotation | Source: The Wilson Quarterly | Subjects: Economics, Money, Personality / Behavior
Steven Sherman, Matthew Crawford, Allen McConnell
Experiments indicate that we prefer “choices where the outcomes of alternative selections will never be learned,” as a way of avoiding regret…We avoid those agonizing might-have-beens, it seems, by cultivating not just wisdom but ignorance.
Content: Quotation | Authors: Allen McConnell, Matthew Crawford, Steven Sherman | Source: The Wilson Quarterly | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Personality / Behavior
Larry Summers
You can show very elegantly that the market will efficiently price two-quart botttles of ketchup at twice the price of a one-quart bottle; the problem is that the one-quart bottle may be mispriced.
Content: Quotation | Author: Larry Summers | Source: The Wilson Quarterly | Subject: Economics
William Deresiewics
This is what the contemporary self wants. It wants to be recognized, wants to be connected: It wants to be visible…If the property that grounded the self, in Romanticism, was sincerity, and in modernism it was authenticity, then in postmodernism it is visibility.
So we live exclusively in relation to others, and what disappears from our lives is solitude….But no real excellence, personal or social, … [ Read more ]
Content: Quotation | Author: William Deresiewics | Source: The Wilson Quarterly | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Personal Development, Personality / Behavior
Tom Ruby
Misapplying experience is perhaps the surest route to failure.
Content: Quotation | Author: Tom Ruby | Source: The Wilson Quarterly | Subjects: Experience, Success / Failure
Kishore Mahbubani
Nations, like individuals, languish when they only have uncritical lovers or unloving critics.
Content: Quotation | Author: Kishore Mahbubani | Source: The Wilson Quarterly | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Personal Development
Gilman Louie
The most surprising thing was that if terrorists rolled a hand grenade down the middle of a room, all our CIA employees would jump out of their seats and throw their bodies on it to protect everyone else. They would all give up their lives for one another and their country. However, if someone ran into the room and said, ‘I need someone to make … [ Read more ]
Content: Quotation | Author: Gilman Louie | Source: The Wilson Quarterly | Subjects: Innovation, Motivation, Organizational Behavior
William A. Galston
Although the cost of excessive caution is harder to measure than that of recklessness, it is no less real.
Content: Quotation | Source: The Wilson Quarterly | Subjects: Achievement, Management, Organizational Behavior
Gil Troy
Problem solving invites reason, compromise, and, ultimately, mutual respect; identity building invites posturing, passion, and, ultimately, intolerance.
Content: Quotation | Author: Gil Troy | Source: The Wilson Quarterly | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Problems / Solutions
Erving Goffman, Max Weber
Greetings are the means by which individuals enter into social arrangements and relationships; the ways greetings are given, received, and reciprocated provide a means of reading status, power, group identity, and disposition toward cooperation or hostility.
Content: Quotation | Source: The Wilson Quarterly | Subject: Organizational Behavior
David Sarnoff
Competition brings out the best in products and the worst in men.
Content: Quotation | Author: David Sarnoff | Source: The Wilson Quarterly | Subject: Competition
Women at the Top
Income Trends in the U.S.
Nolan Bushnell
The way to an interesting life is to stay on the steep part of the learning curve.
Content: Quotation | Source: The Wilson Quarterly | Subjects: Learning, Life
Racing for Knowledge: International Comparisons
Kenneth Boulding
The human condition can almost be summed up in the observation that, whereas all experiences are of the past, all decisions are about the future. The image of the future, therefore, is the key to all choice-oriented behavior.
Content: Quotation | Source: The Wilson Quarterly | Subjects: Decision Making, Future