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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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You have a real life if and only if you do not compete with anyone in any of your pursuits.
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Never take advice from someone wearing a tie.
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What we need to do is break the financial community's grip on society.
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Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope, some day, to find something to say.
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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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Wittgenstein's ruler: Unless you have confidence in the ruler's reliability, if you use a ruler to measure a table you may also be using the table to measure the ruler.
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A mistake is not something to be determined after the fact, but in the light of the information until that point.
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Debt is a mistake between lender and borrower, and both should suffer.
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Writing is the art of repeating oneself without anyone noticing.
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Philosophers talk about truth and falsehood. People in life talk about payoff, exposure, and consequences (risks and rewards), hence fragility and antifragility. And sometimes philosophers and thinkers and those who study conflate Truth with risks and rewards.
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Probability is not about the odds, but about the belief in the existence of an alternative outcome, cause, or motive.
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I disagree with the followers of Marx and those of Adam Smith: the reason free markets work is because they allow people to be lucky, thanks to aggressive trial and error, not by giving rewards or incentives for skill.
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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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Just as being nice to the arrogant is no better than being arrogant toward the nice, being accommodating toward anyone committing a nefarious action condones it.
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Greatness starts with the replacement of hatred with polite disdain.
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Those who do not think that employment is systemic slavery are either blind or employed.
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Experience is devoid of the cherry-picking that we find in studies.
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Anything that provides you with very, very stable income, very stable conditions, maybe generally stable, that often, it masks real risks, risks of blow-ups.
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People focus on role models it is more effective to find antimodels - people you don't want to resemble when you grow up
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Life is a tightrope between two errors: generalizing the wrong particular and particularizing the wrong general.
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