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Nassim Nicholas Taleb Inspirational Quotes (204)

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A washing machine needs constant maintenance. It doesn't want any harm. It wants tranquility, and you need someone to - you're not going to harm it by continuously monitoring it and adjusting it.
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Scepticism is effortful and costly. It is better to be sceptical about matters of large consequences, and be imperfect, foolish and human in the small and the aesthetic.
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What we need to do is break the financial community's grip on society.
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Cumulative errors depend largely on the big surprises, the big opportunities. Not only do economic, financial, and political predictors miss them, but they are quite ashamed to say anything outlandish to their clients and yet events, it turns out, are almost always outlandish.
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Few understand that procrastination is our natural defense, letting things take care of themselves and exercise their antifragility it results from some ecological or naturalistic wisdom, and is not always bad - at an existential level, it is my body rebelling against its entrapment. It is my soul fighting the Procrustean bed of modernity.
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To succeed in life requires a total inability to do anything that makes you uncomfortable when you look at yourself in the mirror.
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We should probably stop trading derivatives, anything more complex than regular options ... I am an options trader, and I don't understand options. How do you want a regulator to understand them?
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If my detractors knew me better they would hate me even more.
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Injecting some confusion stabilizes the system.
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Older people are most beautiful when they have what is lacking in the young: poise, erudition, wisdom, phronesis, and this post-heroic absence of agitation.
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It's harder to say 'no' when you really mean it.
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Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.
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When you develop your opinions on the basis of weak evidence, you will have difficulty interpreting subsequent information that contradicts these opinions, even if this new information is obviously more accurate.
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Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric.
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Never ask a trader if he is profitable: you can easily see it in his gesture and gait.
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Read books are far less valuable than unread ones.
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[A] theory is a very dangerous thing to have.
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Every social association that is not face-to-face is injurious to your health.
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A competitive athlete is painful to look at trying hard to become an animal rather than a man, he will never be as fast as a cheetah or as strong as an ox.
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I want to live happily in a world I don’t understand.
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Stoicism is about the *domestication* of emotions, not their elimination.
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We know from chaos theory that even if you had a perfect model of the world, you'd need infinite precision in order to predict future events. With sociopolitical or economic phenomena, we don't have anything like that.
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Aesthetics, ethics, and many good things in humans are contagious.
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I suppose that the main benefit of being rich (over just being independent) is to be able to despise rich people (a good concentration of whom you find in glitzy ski resorts) without any sour grapes. It is even sweeter when these farts don't know that you are richer than they are.
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