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Success is becoming in middle adulthood what you dreamed to be in late childhood.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 11
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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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Please, don’t drive a school bus blindfolded.
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Private equity has absolutely no reason to exist. The private equity holder has all the upside and the banks all the downside.
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You want to be yourself, idiosyncratic the collective (school, rules, jobs, technology) wants you generic to the point of castration.
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Someone who says I am busy is either declaring incompetence (and lack of control of his life) or trying to get rid of you.
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The person you are most afraid to contradict is yourself.
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This is the tragedy of modernity: as with neurotically overprotective parents, those trying to help are often hurting us the most.
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We should probably stop trading derivatives, anything more complex than regular options ... I am an options trader, and I don't understand options. How do you want a regulator to understand them?
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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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Don't read newspapers for the news (just for the gossip and, of course, profiles of authors). The best filter to know if the news matters is if you hear it in cafes, restaurants... or (again) parties.
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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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Aesthetics, ethics, and many good things in humans are contagious.
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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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Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness.
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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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Never trust a journalist unless she's your mother.
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It has been more profitable for us to bind together in the wrong direction than to be alone in the right one.
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Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope, some day, to find something to say.
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Dress your best on your execution day. Be extremely courteous to your assistant when you lose money. Try not to blame others for your fate, even if they deserve blame. Never exhibit any self-pity. Do not complain.
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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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