"I think I felt I had to do certain things coming out of school, but quickly realized that wasn’t the life I wanted to live." - Rachel Cook, Microlending Film Project

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"Investors want to rush in and invest when you position their fear and greed together: their greed to make a billion dollars and their fear of losing the deal." - Yu-Kai Chou, RewardMe

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"Merger arb is an investing strategy where you’re betting on whether a public M&A deal will actually go through." - John Chen, BNP Paribas

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