Nassim Nicholas Taleb Corporations Quotations

In the United States large corporations control some members of Congress. All this does is delay the corporation’s funeral at our expense.

You have family-owned businesses that have been around for 500 years. You cannot name a corporation that survives intact for even a few decades.

In poor countries, officials receive explicit bribes; in D.C. they get the sophisticated, implicit, unspoken promise to work for large corporations