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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 11
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You never win an argument until they attack your person.
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Don't ask the barber whether you need a haircut, and don't ask an academic if what he does is relevant.
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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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Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness.
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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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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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Private equity has absolutely no reason to exist. The private equity holder has all the upside and the banks all the downside.
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I hated school because I liked to daydream and the system tried to stop me from that.
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If you don't feel that you haven't read enough, you haven't read enough.
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Someone who says I am busy is either declaring incompetence (and lack of control of his life) or trying to get rid of you.
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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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It's not a good idea to take a forecast from someone wearing a tie. If possible, tease people who take themselves and their knowledge too seriously.
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Injecting some confusion stabilizes the system.
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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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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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A man without a heroic bent starts dying at the age of thirty.
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Umberto Eco is the owner of a large personal library of almost 30,000 books that he has not read. [To him] read books are far less valuable than unread ones.
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Asking science to explain life and vital matters is equivalent to asking a grammarian to explain poetry.
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