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Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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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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Experience is devoid of the cherry-picking that we find in studies.
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He who has never sinned is less reliable than he who has only sinned once.
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Scepticism is effortful and costly. It is better to be sceptical about matters of large consequences, and be imperfect, foolish and human in the small and the aesthetic.
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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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I hated school because I liked to daydream and the system tried to stop me from that.
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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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To bankrupt a fool, give him information.
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Only the autodidacts are free.
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The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.
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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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What fools call wasting time is most often the best investment.
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[A] theory is a very dangerous thing to have.
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Never ask a trader if he is profitable: you can easily see it in his gesture and gait.
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Your reputation is harmed the most by what you say to defend it.
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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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