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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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Banks have never made money in the history of banking, losing the equivalent of all their past profits periodically - while bankers strike it rich.
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Only in recent history has working hard signaled pride rather than shame for lack of talent, finesse and, mostly, sprezzatura .
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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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To bankrupt a fool, give him information.
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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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[A] theory is a very dangerous thing to have.
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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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Injecting some confusion stabilizes the system.
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When you develop your opinions on the basis of weak evidence, you will have difficulty interpreting subsequent information that contradicts these opinions, even if this new information is obviously more accurate.
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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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Anything organic requires some dose of variability so it can adapt all the time, and fixing things is not a good idea.
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The fragile wants tranquility, the antifragile grows from disorder, and the robust doesn't care too much.
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Only the autodidacts are free.
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Things always become obvious after the fact
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Go to parties. You can't even start to know what you may find on the envelope of serendipity. If you suffer from agoraphobia, send colleagues.
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For the classics philosophical insight was the product of a life of leisure for me a life of leisure is the product of philosophical insight.
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Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same the antifragile gets better.
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The rationalist imagines an imbecile-free society the empiricist and imbecile-proof one, or even better, a rationalist-proof one.
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When some systems are stuck in a dangerous impasse, randomness and only randomness can unlock them and set them free.
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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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