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Your reputation is harmed the most by what you say to defend it.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 11
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Economist
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Nassim Nicholas Najib Taleb
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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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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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While in theory randomness is an intrinsic property, in practice, randomness is incomplete information.
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I don't know anyone on Wall Street who goes to work every day thinking of anything but how to increase their bonus.
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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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When we want to do something while unconsciously certain to fail, we seek advice so we can blame someone else for the failure.
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It might be useful to be able to predict war. But tension does not necessarily lead to war, but often to peace and to denouement.
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We should ban banks from risk-taking because society is going to pay the price.
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The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.
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The best way to measure the loss of intellectual sophistication - this nerdification, to put it bluntly - is in the growing disappearance of sarcasm, as mechanic minds take insults a bit too literally.
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Forecasting by bureaucrats tends to be used for anxiety relief rather than for adequate policy making.
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It is also naïve empiricism to provide, in support of some argument, series of eloquent confirmatory quotes by dead authorities. By searching, you can always find someone who made a well-sounding statement that confirms your point of view and, on every topic, it is possible to find another dead thinker who said the exact opposite.
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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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Alan Greenspan is unskilled you don't take the unskilled seriously.
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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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