Professor Galloway Quotes

Getting a good job, working long hours, keeping your skills relevant, navigating the politics of an organization, finding a live/work balance...these are all really hard. In contrast, respecting institutions, having manners, demonstrating a level of humility...these are all (relatively) easy. Get the easy stuff right. In and of themselves they will not make you successful. However, not possessing them will hold you back and you will not achieve your potential.

NYU professor Scott Galloway has a related idea that is so important to remember when judging success—both your own and others’: “Nothing is as good or as bad as it seems.

The second project is the support of crypto currency. Crypto is basically a pyramid scheme, with early investors dumping their tokens when the price rises. Professor Scott Galloway of New York University (named one of the Global Leaders of Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum) has shown that the top 2 percent of accounts own 95 percent of the $800 billion supply of Bitcoin. In June 2022, a group of computer scientists and cryptographers wrote a letter to congressional leadership warning of the potential economic disaster crypto currencies may cause: “The catastrophes and externalities related to blockchain technologies and crypto-

Scott Galloway, the influential podcaster and a New York University professor, slammed Palantir as a “shitty” business and said it had “all the calories of Facebook (scaled sociopathy) with none of the great taste (profits).” He later told CNN that Palantir was “crap being flung at tourists to the unicorn zoo.