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Alan Greenspan is unskilled you don't take the unskilled seriously.

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 11
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Economist
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Nassim Nicholas Najib Taleb
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What we need to do is break the financial community's grip on society.
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Karl Marx, a visionary, figured out that you can control a slave much better by convincing him he is an employee.
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Luck is the grand equalizer.
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Economic life should be definancialised. We should learn not to use markets as storehouses of value: they do not harbour the certainties that normal citizens require. Citizens should experience anxiety about their own businesses (which they control), not their investments (which they do not control).
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The traits I respect are erudition and the courage to stand up when half-men are afraid for their reputation. Any idiot can be intelligent.
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Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur
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History is opaque. You see what comes out, not the script that produces events, [...] The generator of historical events is different from the events themselves, much as the minds of the gods cannot be read just by witnessing their deeds.
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Globalization has created this interlocking fragility. At no time in the history of the universe has the cancellation of a Christmas order in New York meant layoffs in China.
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I hated school because I liked to daydream and the system tried to stop me from that.
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The difference between slaves in Roman and Ottoman days and today's employees is that slaves did not need to flatter their boss.
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There are systems that use failure as fuel for improvement, where the cost of failure is small.
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The sucker's trap is when you focus on what you know and what others don't know, rather than the reverse.
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Charm is the ability to insult people without offending them nerdiness the reverse
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I've debated many economists who claim to specialize in risk and probability: when one takes them slightly outside their narrow focus, but within the discipline of probability, they fall apart, with the disconsolate face of a gym rat in front of a gangster hit man.
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