A Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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

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Corporations Countries Explicit Get Implicit Large Officials Poor Poor Countries Promise Receive Sophisticated Unspoken Work

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Lebanese - Scientist
Born: 1960

Officials from the soccer organization FIFA, which decides which cities get to host the World Cup, are accused of accepting bribes when making their decision. Of course the toughest part for the soccer officials was taking bribes without using their hands.

Jimmy Fallon

If the level and amount of consumption and waste of the western rich countries ever reaches the poor countries, it will mean the end of humanity. The big world corporations are busy doing it...The production, selling, consumption, accumulation, wastes' and advertisement explosions in the western rich countries and the continued population explosion in the poor countries will turn into major catastrophes.

Robert Muller

Writers of color are given certain messages - explicit or implicit - about what they're allowed to write about or what will be successful if they write about it. And white writers are given another set of implicit and, sometimes, explicit messages.

Jess Row

Rich countries have been sending aid to poor countries for the last 60 years. And, by and large, this has failed.

Iqbal Quadir

Every explicit duality is an implicit unity.

Alan Watts

One word that seems to connect both leaders and employees is: 'outcomes.' Built into that word is the implicit and explicit understanding and agreement that effective actions lead to good outcomes; ineffective actions lead to poor outcomes.

Mark Goulston

Memory is essential to who we are, and memories can be both implicit and explicit - unconscious and conscious.

Siri Hustvedt

As a teacher, it is your job to make explicit whatever you though was implicit

Carol Ann Tomlinson

We have to fundamentally rethink our trade policy and make it work not for the CEOs of large corporations, but for working people. So, if Trump wants to develop a rational trade policy which demands corporations start investing in this country, rather than China, that's something that we can work on.

Bernie Sanders

The problem with addicted people, communities, corporations, or countries is that they tend to lie, cheat, or steal to get their 'fix.' Corporations are addicted to profit and governments to power.

Helen Caldicott

Trying to express implicit and fuzzy relationships in ways that are explicit and sharp doesn't clarify the meaning, it destroys it.

Clay Shirky

I try to make sure that the Buddhism is more or less implicit in the music rather than explicit

Duncan Sheik

I try to make sure that the Buddhism is more or less implicit in the music rather than explicit.

Duncan Sheik

The blessing of the state, implicit or explicit, has been crucial to every twentieth-century information empire.

Tim Wu

A considerable proportion of the developed world's prosperity rests on paying the lowest possible prices for the poor countries' primary products and on exporting high-cost capital and finished goods to those countries. Continuation of this kind of prosperity requires continuation of the relative gap between developed and underdeveloped countries - it means keeping poor people poor. Increasingly, the impoverished masses are understanding that the prosperity of the developed countries and of the privileged minorities in their own countries is founded on their poverty.