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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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Read books are far less valuable than unread ones.
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Those who do not think that employment is systemic slavery are either blind or employed.
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An option hides where we don't want it to hide.
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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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Let me be more aggressive: we are largely better at doing than we are at thinking, thanks to antifragility. I’d rather be dumb and antifragile than extremely smart and fragile, any time.
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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.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
If humans fight the last war, nature fights the next one.
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But it remains the case that you know what is wrong with a lot more confidence than you know what is right.
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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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The rationalist imagines an imbecile-free society the empiricist and imbecile-proof one, or even better, a rationalist-proof one.
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Things always become obvious after the fact
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The characteristic feature of the loser is to bemoan, in general terms, mankind's flaws, biases, contradictions, and irrationality - without exploiting them for fun and profit
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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.
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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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Only in recent history has working hard signaled pride rather than shame for lack of talent, finesse and, mostly, sprezzatura .
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The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.
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Go to parties. You can't even start to know what you may find on the envelope of serendipity. If you suffer from agoraphobia, send colleagues.
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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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The fragile wants tranquility, the antifragile grows from disorder, and the robust doesn't care too much.
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For the classics philosophical insight was the product of a life of leisure for me a life of leisure is the product of philosophical insight.
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