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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 11
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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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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.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Comfort makes you weaker. We need some variability, some stressors. Not too much, but just enough.
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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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The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.
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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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Someone who says I am busy is either declaring incompetence (and lack of control of his life) or trying to get rid of you.
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It was obvious that their profits were simply cash borrowed from destiny with some random payback time.
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What we do today has nothing to do with capitalism or socialism. It is a crony type of system that transfers money to the coffers of bureaucrats.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The difference between slaves in Roman and Ottoman days and today's employees is that slaves did not need to flatter their boss.
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If my detractors knew me better they would hate me even more.
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Older people are most beautiful when they have what is lacking in the young: poise, erudition, wisdom, phronesis, and this post-heroic absence of agitation.
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Modernity has replaced ethics with legalese, and the law can be gamed with a good lawyer.
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Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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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If you are in banking and lending, surprise outcomes are likely to be negative for you.
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You never win an argument until they attack your person.
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Debt is a mistake between lender and borrower, and both should suffer.
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If something is going on, I hear about it. I like to talk to people, I socialise. Television is a waste of time. Human contact is what matters.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric.
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