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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.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 11
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Realism is punishing. Probabilistic skepticism is worse.
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The difference between slaves in Roman and Ottoman days and today's employees is that slaves did not need to flatter their boss.
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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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He who has never sinned is less reliable than he who has only sinned once.
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The traits I respect are erudition and the courage to stand up when half-men are afraid for their reputation. Any idiot can be intelligent.
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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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The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.
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Education makes the wise slightly wiser, but it makes the fool vastly more dangerous.
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Probability is not a mere computation of odds on the dice or more complicated variants it is the acceptance of the lack of certainty in our knowledge and the development of methods for dealing with our ignorance.
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Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you do not know as your financial means, mortgage rates, and the currently tight real-estate market alow you to put there.
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A prophet is not someone with special visions, just someone blind to most of what others see
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Just as being nice to the arrogant is no better than being arrogant toward the nice, being accommodating toward anyone committing a nefarious action condones it.
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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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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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It is my great hope someday, to see science and decision makers rediscover what the ancients have always known. Namely that our highest currency is respect.
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But it remains the case that you know what is wrong with a lot more confidence than you know what is right.
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