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true humility is when you can surprise yourself more than others the rest is either shyness or good marketing
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 11
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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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I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.
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Alan Greenspan is unskilled you don't take the unskilled seriously.
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Paul Krugman is a danger to society!
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Never take advice from someone wearing a tie.
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Cumulative errors depend largely on the big surprises, the big opportunities. Not only do economic, financial, and political predictors miss them, but they are quite ashamed to say anything outlandish to their clients and yet events, it turns out, are almost always outlandish.
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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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The twentieth century was the bankruptcy of the social utopia the twenty-first will be that of the technological one.
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A washing machine needs constant maintenance. It doesn't want any harm. It wants tranquility, and you need someone to - you're not going to harm it by continuously monitoring it and adjusting it.
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Education makes the wise slightly wiser, but it makes the fool vastly more dangerous.
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[A] theory is a very dangerous thing to have.
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Banks have never made money in the history of banking, losing the equivalent of all their past profits periodically - while bankers strike it rich.
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If something is going on, I hear about it. I like to talk to people, I socialise. Television is a waste of time. Human contact is what matters.
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Aesthetics, ethics, and many good things in humans are contagious.
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The person you are most afraid to contradict is yourself.
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If you let markets - in general, my belief is that if you let markets give you information, they'll give you the information rather than artificially prop up everything.
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Missing a train is only painful if you run after it! Likewise, not matching the idea of success others expect from you is only painful if that’s what you are seeking.
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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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