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The psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer has a simple heuristic. Never ask the doctor what you should do. Ask him what he would do if he were in your place. You would be surprised at the difference
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 11
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It is also naïve empiricism to provide, in support of some argument, series of eloquent confirmatory quotes by dead authorities. By searching, you can always find someone who made a well-sounding statement that confirms your point of view and, on every topic, it is possible to find another dead thinker who said the exact opposite.
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The number of managers with great track records in a given market depends far more on the number of people who started in the investment business (in place of going to dental school), rather than on their ability to produce profits.
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When I trade, I don't have an agency problem I have my neck on the line. When a bank or banker trades, it's not his neck on the line.
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To succeed in life requires a total inability to do anything that makes you uncomfortable when you look at yourself in the mirror.
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You will be civilized on the day you can spend a long period doing nothing, learning nothing, and improving nothing, without feeling the slightest amount of guilt.
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Debt is a mistake between lender and borrower, and both should suffer.
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Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.
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Never take advice from someone wearing a tie.
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If my detractors knew me better they would hate me even more.
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A man without a heroic bent starts dying at the age of thirty.
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An option hides where we don't want it to hide.
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Life is a tightrope between two errors: generalizing the wrong particular and particularizing the wrong general.
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There are systems that use failure as fuel for improvement, where the cost of failure is small.
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It is often the mistakes of others that benefit the rest of us and, sadly, not them ... For the antifragile, harm from errors should be less than the benefits.
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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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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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Realism is punishing. Probabilistic skepticism is worse.
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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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Success is becoming in middle adulthood what you dreamed to be in late childhood.
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Umberto Eco is the owner of a large personal library of almost 30,000 books that he has not read. [To him] read books are far less valuable than unread ones.
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