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Nassim Nicholas Taleb Inspirational Quotes (204)

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Private equity has absolutely no reason to exist. The private equity holder has all the upside and the banks all the downside.
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When you ask people, 'What's the opposite of fragile?,' they tend to say robust, resilient, adaptable, solid, strong. That's not it. The opposite of fragile is something that gains from disorder.
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Life is a tightrope between two errors: generalizing the wrong particular and particularizing the wrong general.
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He who has never sinned is less reliable than he who has only sinned once. And someone who has made plenty of errors-though never the same error more than once-is more reliable than someone who has never made any.
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The American people will eventually get hurt by this accumulated deficit. That's the problem. We have too much deficit. We have to find a solution.
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We should ban banks from risk-taking because society is going to pay the price.
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Never trust a journalist unless she's your mother.
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Much of aging comes from a misunderstanding of the effect of comfort.
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A man without a heroic bent starts dying at the age of thirty.
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The worst side effect of wealth is the social associations it forces on its victims, as people with big houses end up socializing with other people with big houses.
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Anything organic requires some dose of variability so it can adapt all the time, and fixing things is not a good idea.
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Probability is not about the odds, but about the belief in the existence of an alternative outcome, cause, or motive.
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Experience is devoid of the cherry-picking that we find in studies.
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This is the tragedy of modernity: as with neurotically overprotective parents, those trying to help are often hurting us the most.
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It is remarkable how fast and how effectively you can construct a nationality with a flag , a few speeches, and a national anthem to this day I avoid the label Lebanese, preferring the less restrictive Levantine designation.
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As countries get rich they start increasing education and the very educated people tend to not like trial and error, because they think they're obligated to use the body of knowledge they have.
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It is often the mistakes of others that benefit the rest of us and, sadly, not them ... For the antifragile, harm from errors should be less than the benefits.
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Someone who says I am busy is either declaring incompetence (and lack of control of his life) or trying to get rid of you.
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You have a real life if and only if you do not compete with anyone in any of your pursuits.
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Don't read newspapers for the news (just for the gossip and, of course, profiles of authors). The best filter to know if the news matters is if you hear it in cafes, restaurants... or (again) parties.
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Comfort makes you weaker. We need some variability, some stressors. Not too much, but just enough.
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Only the autodidacts are free.
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We glorify those who left their names in history books at the expense of those contributors about whom our books are silent. We humans are not just a superficial race - we are a very unfair one.
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People used to wear ordinary clothes weekdays, and formal attire on Sunday. Today it is the exact reverse.
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