A Quote by Seth Klarman

Be sure that you are well compensated for illiquidity - especially illiquidity without control - because it can create particularly high opportunity costs.

Seth Klarman

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Seth Klarman
American - Author
Born: May 21, 1957

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Seth Klarman

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Christian Horner

In our high-tech, high-skilled economy where low-skilled work is being scaled back, phased out, exported, or severely under-compensated, all the right behavior in the world won't create better jobs with more pay.

Michael Eric Dyson

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Homaro Cantu

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Hamid Karzai

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Temple Grandin

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Noam Chomsky

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Lykke Li

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Dwyane Wade

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