Investing Quotes by Yuval Noah Harari

22 Investing quotes by Yuval Noah Harari

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Harari brings his big‑picture lens to the world of capital, weaving together anthropology and economics. Expect reflections that tie personal finance to the forces shaping humanity’s next chapters.

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“the Chinese air-purification market is booming.”

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“Humans are relinquishing authority to the free market, to crowd wisdom and to external algorithms partly because we cannot deal with the…

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“The collapse of the family and the local community and their replacement by the state and the market.”

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“Just as free-market capitalists believe in the invisible hand of the market, so Dataists believe in the invisible hand of the dataflow.”

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“It is dangerous to trust or future to market forces, because these forces do what's good for the market rather than what's…

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“nobody really knows what the job market, the family or the ecology will look like in 2050, or which religions, economic systems…

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“In many cases individuals are exploited by markets, and states employ their armies, police forces and bureaucracies to persecute individuals instead of…

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“For thousands of years priests, rabbis and muftis explained that humans cannot overcome famine, plague and war by their own efforts. Then…

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“Even more money is transferred to the bank accounts of fashion designers, gym managers, dieticians, cosmeticians and plastic surgeons, who help us…

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“Since we do not know what the job market will look like in 2030 or 2040, already today we have no idea…

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“Because money can convert, store and transport wealth easily and cheaply, it made a vital contribution to the appearance of complex commercial…

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As algorithms push humans out of the job market, wealth and power might become concentrated in the hands of the tiny elite…

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“In the Middle Ages the outbreak of a plague caused people to raise their eyes towards heaven, and pray to God to…

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“Whereas traditionally the family was the main matchmaker, today it’s the market that tailors our romantic and sexual preferences, and then lends…

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“Since we do not know what the job market will look like in 2030 or 2040, already today we have no idea…

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“It took the Afro-Asian giant several centuries to digest all that it had swallowed, but the process was irreversible. Today almost all…

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“Behind this monstrous shield, liberal democracy and the free market managed to hold out in their last bastions, and Westerners could enjoy…

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“But in its extreme form, belief in the free market is as naive as belief in Santa Claus. There simply is no…

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“Romantic literature often presents the individual as somebody caught in a struggle against the state and the market. Nothing could be further…

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“But in its extreme form, belief in the free market is as naïve as belief in Santa Claus. There simply is no…

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“The nation is the imagined community of the state. The consumer tribe is the imagined community of the market. Both are imagined…

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“Romantic literature often presents the individual as somebody caught in a struggle against the state and the market. Nothing could be further…

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“For similar reasons, archaic humans did not initiate any revolutions. As far as we can tell, changes in social patterns, the invention of new…

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“Today the main source of wealth is knowledge. And whereas you can conquer oil fields through war, you cannot acquire knowledge that way.”

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“How do you cause people to believe in an imagined order such as Christianity, democracy or capitalism? First, you never admit that the order…

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I think the basic thing that happened is we have lost our story. Humans think in stories, and we try to make sense of…

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“Whereas chimpanzees spend five hours a day chewing raw food, a single hour suffices for people eating cooked food. The advent of cooking enabled…

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“the Chinese air-purification market is booming.”

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“Whereas liberalism merged with the milder versions of nationalism to protect the unique experiences of each human community, evolutionary humanists such as Hitler identified…

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“Corporations, money and nations exist only in our imagination. We invented them to serve us; why do we find ourselves sacrificing our lives in…

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“Small children in affluent societies often dislike showering, and it takes them years of education and parental discipline to adopt this supposedly attractive custom.…

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“Ever more scholars see cultures as a kind of mental infection or parasite, with humans as its unwitting host. Organic parasites, such as viruses,…

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“Soviet Communism was a fanatical and missionary religion. A devout Communist could not be a Christian or a Buddhist, and was expected to spread…

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“Whereas religion asks us to believe in something, money asks us to believe that other people believe in something”

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“Terrorists are like a fly that tries to destroy a china shop. The fly is so weak that it cannot budge even a single…

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“Yet what happens if the greedy shoemaker increases his profits by paying employees less and increasing their work hours? The standard answer is that…

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“A natural order is a stable order. There is no chance that gravity will cease to function tomorrow, even if people stop believing in…

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