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Experience is devoid of the cherry-picking that we find in studies.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 11
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Nassim Nicholas Najib Taleb
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Dress your best on your execution day. Be extremely courteous to your assistant when you lose money. Try not to blame others for your fate, even if they deserve blame. Never exhibit any self-pity. Do not complain.
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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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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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Debt is a mistake between lender and borrower, and both should suffer.
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A verbal threat is the most authentic certificate of impotence.
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You want to be yourself, idiosyncratic the collective (school, rules, jobs, technology) wants you generic to the point of castration.
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Read books are far less valuable than unread ones.
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We should reward people, not ridicule them, for thinking the impossible.
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Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.
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They think that intelligence is about noticing things are relevant (detecting patterns) in a complex world, intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant (avoiding false patterns)
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It is a sign of weakness to avoid showing signs of weakness.
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Scepticism is effortful and costly. It is better to be sceptical about matters of large consequences, and be imperfect, foolish and human in the small and the aesthetic.
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History is opaque. You see what comes out, not the script that produces events, [...] The generator of historical events is different from the events themselves, much as the minds of the gods cannot be read just by witnessing their deeds.
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Economic life should be definancialised. We should learn not to use markets as storehouses of value: they do not harbour the certainties that normal citizens require. Citizens should experience anxiety about their own businesses (which they control), not their investments (which they do not control).
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Economics make homeopath and alternative healers look empirical and scientific.
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The book is the only medium left that hasn't been corrupted by the profane.
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Comfort makes you weaker. We need some variability, some stressors. Not too much, but just enough.
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Charm is the ability to insult people without offending them nerdiness the reverse
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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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We should probably stop trading derivatives, anything more complex than regular options ... I am an options trader, and I don't understand options. How do you want a regulator to understand them?
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