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You want people to take risks, and OK, they fail, but you don't get the great stuff unless people are willing to risk and not play it safe. And maybe the Icelandic characteristic is better harnessed in these places than on the stock market.
Bjork
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Bjork
Age: 58
Born: 1965
Born: November 21
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Björk Guðmundsdóttir
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