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The inability to predict outliers implies the inability to predict the course of history -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
You want to find the really crazy but still somewhat reasonable outliers within the customer ecosystem. -- Aaron Levie
America is an outlier in the world of democracies when it comes to the structure and conduct of elections. -- Thomas E. Mann
Outlier are those who have been given opportunities-- -and who have had the strength and presence of mind to seize them. -- Malcolm Gladwell
We are a very like-minded group, the senior members of this government. The outliers are not very far away from the mainstream. -- Tony Abbott
When you delight the weird, the overlooked and the outliers, they are significantly more likely to talk about you and recommend you. -- Seth
The distribution of the market is fat-tailed relative to the normal distribution... For passive investors, none of this matters, beyond being aware that outlier returns are more common than would be expected if return distributions were normal. -- Eugene Fama
The easiest way to thrive as an outlier is to avoid being one. At least among your most treasured peers. Surround yourself with people in at least as much of a hurry, at least as inquisitive, at least as focused as you are. -- Seth Godin
When you get into statistical analysis, you don't really expect to achieve fame. Or to become an Internet meme. Or be parodied by 'The Onion' - or be the subject of a cartoon in 'The New Yorker.' I guess I'm kind of an outlier there. -- Nate Silver
If there is one thing I learned by reading Epstein's "The Sports Gene" it is that world-class athletes are, by definition, abnormal: that is, the kind of person capable of competing at that level is necessarily very different from the rest of us physiologically. They are outliers. -- Malcolm Gladwell
All statistics have outliers. -- Nenia Campbell

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