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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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My nightmare scenario is that the government saves Citibank once again, as well as the other banks, and business resumes as usual. Then, the next time the system breaks, it breaks much, much bigger.
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Someone bemoaned that there were so few women in economics. But there are also very few men in economics.
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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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Daily news and sugar confuse our system in the same manner.
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Comfort makes you weaker. We need some variability, some stressors. Not too much, but just enough.
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Please, don’t drive a school bus blindfolded.
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Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.
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Another definition of modernity: conversations can be more and more completely reconstructed with clips from other conversations taking place at the same time on the planet.
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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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We favor the visible, the embedded, the personal, the narrated, and the tangible we scorn the abstract.
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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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Paul Krugman is a danger to society!
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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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Never think that lack of variability is stability. Don't confuse lack of volatility with stability, ever.
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An option hides where we don't want it to hide.
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It is remarkable how fast and how effectively you can construct a nationality with a flag , a few speeches, and a national anthem to this day I avoid the label Lebanese, preferring the less restrictive Levantine designation.
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