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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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Nassim Nicholas Najib Taleb
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The person you are most afraid to contradict is yourself.
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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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People focus on role models it is more effective to find antimodels - people you don't want to resemble when you grow up
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Much of aging comes from a misunderstanding of the effect of comfort.
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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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Prediction, not narration, is the real test of our understanding of the world.
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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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When we want to do something while unconsciously certain to fail, we seek advice so we can blame someone else for the failure.
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People used to wear ordinary clothes weekdays, and formal attire on Sunday. Today it is the exact reverse.
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It's harder to say 'no' when you really mean it.
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I disagree with the followers of Marx and those of Adam Smith: the reason free markets work is because they allow people to be lucky, thanks to aggressive trial and error, not by giving rewards or incentives for skill.
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Paul Krugman is a danger to society!
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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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Maximum of an average is necessarily less volatile than the average maximum
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Wittgenstein's ruler: Unless you have confidence in the ruler's reliability, if you use a ruler to measure a table you may also be using the table to measure the ruler.
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Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric.
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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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We glorify those who left their names in history books at the expense of those contributors about whom our books are silent. We humans are not just a superficial race - we are a very unfair one.
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