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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 11
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Economist
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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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Let me be more aggressive: we are largely better at doing than we are at thinking, thanks to antifragility. I’d rather be dumb and antifragile than extremely smart and fragile, any time.
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To succeed in life requires a total inability to do anything that makes you uncomfortable when you look at yourself in the mirror.
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Ideas come and go, stories stay.
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Modernity widened the distance between the sensational and the relevant.
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You get pseudo-order when you seek order you only get a measure of order and control when you embrace randomness.
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Stoicism is about the *domestication* of emotions, not their elimination.
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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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If you are in banking and lending, surprise outcomes are likely to be negative for you.
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[A] theory is a very dangerous thing to have.
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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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When I trade, I don't have an agency problem I have my neck on the line. When a bank or banker trades, it's not his neck on the line.
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Anything that provides you with very, very stable income, very stable conditions, maybe generally stable, that often, it masks real risks, risks of blow-ups.
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We should reward people, not ridicule them, for thinking the impossible.
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Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you do not know as your financial means, mortgage rates, and the currently tight real-estate market alow you to put there.
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Never take advice from someone wearing a tie.
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The worst side effect of wealth is the social associations it forces on its victims, as people with big houses end up socializing with other people with big houses.
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There are systems that use failure as fuel for improvement, where the cost of failure is small.
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Much of aging comes from a misunderstanding of the effect of comfort.
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Things always become obvious after the fact
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