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If you borrowed money and went to a college where the education didn't create any value, that is potentially a really big mistake.

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There have been a lot of critiques of the finance industry's having possibly foisted subprime mortgages on unknowing buyers, and a lot of those kinds of arguments are even more powerful when used against college administrators who are probably in some ways engaged in equally misleading advertising.

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When parents have invested enormous amounts of money in their kids' education, to find their kids coming back to live with them - well, that was not what they bargained for.

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I think people in Europe are generally pessimistic about the future. They have low expectations; they're not working hard to change things. When you're a slacker with a pessimistic view of the future, you're likely to meet those expectations.

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Monopolies are bad and deserve their reputation when things are static and the monopolies function as toll collectors... But I think they're quite positive when they're dynamic and do something new.

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A conventional truth can be important - it's essential to learn elementary mathematics, for example - but it won't give you an edge. It's not a secret.

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Contrarian thinking doesn't make any sense unless the world still has secrets left to give up.

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You can achieve difficult things, but you can't achieve the impossible.

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Every correct answer is necessarily a secret: something important and unknown, something hard to do but doable.

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When people use the word 'science,' it's often a tell, like in poker, that you're bluffing.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Businessman

Born: October 11th, 1967

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