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I don't know anyone on Wall Street who goes to work every day thinking of anything but how to increase their bonus.

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 11
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The fragile wants tranquility, the antifragile grows from disorder, and the robust doesn't care too much.
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Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope, some day, to find something to say.
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A mistake is not something to be determined after the fact, but in the light of the information until that point.
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Debt is a mistake between lender and borrower, and both should suffer.
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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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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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