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An erudite is someone who displays less than he knows a journalist or consultant the opposite.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 11
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Nassim Nicholas Najib Taleb
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He who has never sinned is less reliable than he who has only sinned once. And someone who has made plenty of errors-though never the same error more than once-is more reliable than someone who has never made any.
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Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.
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Those who do not think that employment is systemic slavery are either blind or employed.
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There is no effective difference between guessing a variable that is not random, but for which information is partial or deficient, and a random one. In this sense, guessing (what I don't know, but what someone else may know) and predicting (what has not taken place yet) are the same thing.
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The person you are most afraid to contradict is yourself.
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Is the economy something organic or is it something engineered? I think it's closer to the organic. You harm it by artificially suppressing volatility in it.
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Also, it's good to have more than one profession, in case your own profession goes out of style. A Wall Street trader who's also a belly dancer will do a lot better than a trader who winds up driving a taxi.
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Older people are most beautiful when they have what is lacking in the young: poise, erudition, wisdom, phronesis, and this post-heroic absence of agitation.
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The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.
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Modernity widened the distance between the sensational and the relevant.
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Your reputation is harmed the most by what you say to defend it.
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Realism is punishing. Probabilistic skepticism is worse.
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