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Writing is the art of repeating oneself without anyone noticing.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 11
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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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Alan Greenspan is unskilled you don't take the unskilled seriously.
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Debt is a mistake between lender and borrower, and both should suffer.
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We favor the visible, the embedded, the personal, the narrated, and the tangible we scorn the abstract.
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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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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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