Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes About Country

Quotes about: Country

• In poor countries, officials receive explicit bribes; in D.C. they get the sophisticated, implicit, unspoken promise to work for large corporations

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Country, Promise, Corporations

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.90, Random House

• A country's assets reside in the tinkerers, the hobbyists, and the risk-takers.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Country, Risk, Assets

  "Chaos Is Good for You". Interview with Linda Geddes, www.slate.com. December 2, 2012.

• The best way to learn a language may be an episode of jail in a foreign country.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Country, Jail, May

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2012). “Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder”, p.62, Random House

• As countries get rich they start increasing education and the very educated people tend to not like trial and error, because they think they're obligated to use the body of knowledge they have.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Country, Thinking, Errors

  Source: www.pbs.org

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