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"A credit default swap was confusing mainly because it wasn't really a swap at all. It was an insurance policy, typically on a corporate bond, with semiannual premium payments and a fixed term."
"Being efficient without regard to effectiveness is the default mode of the universe."
"If you don't actively and decidedly choose to be the best, you automatically default to the lower 80% in your field."
"I felt deeply tricked. Stunned. And furious. I also felt my default emotion: numbness."
"Freedom and liberty lose out by default because good people are not vigilant."
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"I'm an incredibly negative person, so any form of success is only ever going to be a relief to me and set my default position back to neutral."
"Good leadership is hard to measure on a daily basis which is why so many default to doing what's easy to measure instead."