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Read books are far less valuable than unread ones.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 11
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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.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
It is a sign of weakness to avoid showing signs of weakness.
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The sucker's trap is when you focus on what you know and what others don't know, rather than the reverse.
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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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A washing machine needs constant maintenance. It doesn't want any harm. It wants tranquility, and you need someone to - you're not going to harm it by continuously monitoring it and adjusting it.
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To bankrupt a fool, give him information.
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Stoicism is about the *domestication* of emotions, not their elimination.
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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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Failure saves lives. In the airline industry, every time a plane crashes the probability of the next crash is lowered by that. The Titanic saved lives because we're building bigger and bigger ships. So these people died, but we have effectively improved the safety of the system, and nothing failed in vain.
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You don't become completely free by just avoiding being a slave you also need to avoid becoming a master.
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If my detractors knew me better they would hate me even more.
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The American people will eventually get hurt by this accumulated deficit. That's the problem. We have too much deficit. We have to find a solution.
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I've debated many economists who claim to specialize in risk and probability: when one takes them slightly outside their narrow focus, but within the discipline of probability, they fall apart, with the disconsolate face of a gym rat in front of a gangster hit man.
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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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A man without a heroic bent starts dying at the age of thirty.
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The fool generalizes the particular the nerd particularizes the general some do both and the wise does neither
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Asking science to explain life and vital matters is equivalent to asking a grammarian to explain poetry.
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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 never win an argument until they attack your person.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The rationalist imagines an imbecile-free society the empiricist and imbecile-proof one, or even better, a rationalist-proof one.
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