A Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Alan Greenspan is unskilled; you don't take the unskilled seriously.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Alan Seriously Take Unskilled

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Lebanese - Scientist
Born: 1960

Let the unskilled jobs that take absolutely no knowledge whatsoever to do — let stupid and unskilled Mexicans do that work.

Rush Limbaugh

If you are unskilled and uneducated, your job is going south. Skilled workers, educated people are going to do fine ’cause those are the kinds of jobs Nafta is going to create. If we are going to start rewarding no skills and stupid people, I’m serious, let the unskilled jobs that take absolutely no knowledge whatsoever to do - let stupid and unskilled Mexicans do that work.

Rush Limbaugh

We call people who work with mud and earth, and sand and stone, unskilled labor in India. I cannot in this lifetime wield the implements that they use either to dig the earth or to shovel the earth. I can't carry the loads. That's extremely specialized. But they are called unskilled, and I am called skilled because I can write with the pen. I cannot accept this. I find it extremely non-egalitarian to say they are unskilled and I am skilled. It's only a way of looking at it. Knowledge is also like that.

Aruna Roy

For the last several decades, there was a prevailing belief among traditional economists that the markets were rational and self-correcting. Alan Greenspan advocated this view. But the 2008 financial crisis showed that this view is incorrect, and Greenspan eventually admitted as much.

Kabir Sehgal

When the former Fed chairman was in, Alan Greenspan was in, there was a saying back in those days that you called the 'Greenspan put.' Any time the treasury secretary - for the Fed chairman - said something, the market saw that as good news, and it took off.

Scott Garrett

These teenagers [that drop out of school to take the higher wage jobs] take jobs that would go to unskilled adults, making it harder for those adults to make the transition from welfare to work.

Greg Mankiw

You can be very successful but still struggling financially, and it looked like I'd have to take a year or two off and find whatever menial labouring work you can get as a middle-aged, unskilled bald man.

Richard Flanagan

no job, no matter how lowly, is truly 'unskilled.

Barbara Ehrenreich

A duck call in the hands of the unskilled is one of conservation's greatest assets

Nash Buckingham

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Brooks Atkinson

It's estimated that by 2030 there will be virtually no unskilled jobs in the British economy.

Lucy Powell

An unskilled middle-aged man can work in the mines, and it pays well.

Richard Flanagan

The best computer is a man, and it’s the only one that can be mass-produced by unskilled labor.

Wernher von Braun

People who write obscurely are either unskilled in writing or up to mischief.

Marshall McLuhan

There is an enormous thrust in our time to have a simple answer. And that simple answer is that all depends on Alan Greenspan and the Federal Reserve. And Alan, who is an old acquaintance of mine, is a marvelous performer in the impression he gives of enormously great perception.