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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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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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Dress your best on your execution day. Be extremely courteous to your assistant when you lose money. Try not to blame others for your fate, even if they deserve blame. Never exhibit any self-pity. Do not complain.
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The more data we have, the more likely we are to drown in it.
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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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Read books are far less valuable than unread ones.
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Comfort makes you weaker. We need some variability, some stressors. Not too much, but just enough.
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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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The person you are most afraid to contradict is yourself.
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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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Paul Krugman is a danger to society!
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Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.
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I want them poor and they deserve to be poor. You can't have capitalism without punishment.
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If you don't feel that you haven't read enough, you haven't read enough.
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It is a sign of weakness to avoid showing signs of weakness.
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It has been more profitable for us to bind together in the wrong direction than to be alone in the right one.
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The characteristic feature of the loser is to bemoan, in general terms, mankind's flaws, biases, contradictions, and irrationality - without exploiting them for fun and profit
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I always remind myself that what one observes is at best a combination of variance and returns, not just returns.
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Don't disturb complicated systems that have been around for a very long time. We don't understand their logic. Don't pollute the planet. Leave it the way we found it, regardless of scientific 'evidence'.
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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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