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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 11
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By setting oneself totally free of constraints, free of thoughts, free of this debilitating activity called work, free of efforts, elements hidden in the texture of reality start staring at you then mysteries that you never thought existed emerge in front of your eyes.
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If I could predict what my day would exactly look like, I would feel a little bit dead.
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If you let markets - in general, my belief is that if you let markets give you information, they'll give you the information rather than artificially prop up everything.
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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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It's harder to say 'no' when you really mean it.
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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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Banks have never made money in the history of banking, losing the equivalent of all their past profits periodically - while bankers strike it rich.
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Luck is the grand equalizer.
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When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters.
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Things always become obvious after the fact
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Never ask a trader if he is profitable: you can easily see it in his gesture and gait.
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You never win an argument until they attack your person.
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Decomposition, for most, starts when they leave the free, social, and uncorrupted college life for the solitary confinement of professions and nuclear families.
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I'd rather have the market tell us what - I'd rather have events precipitate events, rather than just sit there like passive people in Washington.
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There are secrets to our world that only practice can reveal, and no opinion or analysis will ever capture in full.
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Greatness starts with the replacement of hatred with polite disdain.
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Probability is not a mere computation of odds on the dice or more complicated variants it is the acceptance of the lack of certainty in our knowledge and the development of methods for dealing with our ignorance.
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Never ask anyone for their opinion, forecast, or recommendation. Just ask them what they have—or don’t have—in their portfolio.
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Education makes the wise slightly wiser, but it makes the fool vastly more dangerous.
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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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