Defense contractors are able to reap tremendous profits while rarely confronting the risks for which those profits are supposed to be the reward.
James SurowieckiAcademics, who work for long periods in a self-directed fashion, may be especially prone to putting things off: surveys suggest that the vast majority of college students procrastinate, and articles in the literature of procrastination often allude to the author's own problems with finishing the piece.
James SurowieckiThe paradox of Steve Jobs's career is that he had no interest in listening to consumers - he was famously dismissive of market research - yet nonetheless had an amazing sense of what consumers actually wanted.
James SurowieckiI tend to delay writing by doing more research - it's really the act of writing the piece that I have the hardest time with.
James Surowiecki