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Economics make homeopath and alternative healers look empirical and scientific.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 11
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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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Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric.
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Also, it's good to have more than one profession, in case your own profession goes out of style. A Wall Street trader who's also a belly dancer will do a lot better than a trader who winds up driving a taxi.
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What fools call wasting time is most often the best investment.
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The person you are most afraid to contradict is yourself.
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We should reward people, not ridicule them, for thinking the impossible.
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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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It was obvious that their profits were simply cash borrowed from destiny with some random payback time.
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The more data we have, the more likely we are to drown in it.
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There are secrets to our world that only practice can reveal, and no opinion or analysis will ever capture in full.
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There is a certain category of fool-the overeducated, the academic, the journalist, the newspaper reader, the mechanistic scientist, the pseudo-empiricist, those endowed with what I call epistemic arrogance, this wonderful ability to discount what they did not see, the unobserved.
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We favor the visible, the embedded, the personal, the narrated, and the tangible we scorn the abstract.
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What we do today has nothing to do with capitalism or socialism. It is a crony type of system that transfers money to the coffers of bureaucrats.
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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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Never ask anyone for their opinion, forecast, or recommendation. Just ask them what they have—or don’t have—in their portfolio.
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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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Greatness starts with the replacement of hatred with polite disdain.
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To bankrupt a fool, give him information.
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true humility is when you can surprise yourself more than others the rest is either shyness or good marketing
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What is nonmeasurable and nonpredictable will remain nonmeasurable and nonpredictable ... no matter how much hate mail I get.
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