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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 11
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Nassim Nicholas Najib Taleb
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You have family-owned businesses that have been around for 500 years. You cannot name a corporation that survives intact for even a few decades.
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The fastest way to become rich is to socialize with the poor the fastest way to become poor is to socialize with the rich.
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Don't disturb complicated systems that have been around for a very long time. We don't understand their logic. Don't pollute the planet. Leave it the way we found it, regardless of scientific 'evidence'.
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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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It is often the mistakes of others that benefit the rest of us and, sadly, not them ... For the antifragile, harm from errors should be less than the benefits.
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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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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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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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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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Missing a train is only painful if you run after it! Likewise, not matching the idea of success others expect from you is only painful if that’s what you are seeking.
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People used to wear ordinary clothes weekdays, and formal attire on Sunday. Today it is the exact reverse.
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Daily news and sugar confuse our system in the same manner.
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The traits I respect are erudition and the courage to stand up when half-men are afraid for their reputation. Any idiot can be intelligent.
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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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You never win an argument until they attack your person.
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Karl Marx, a visionary, figured out that you can control a slave much better by convincing him he is an employee.
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Simplicity is not so simple to attain.
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Cumulative errors depend largely on the big surprises, the big opportunities. Not only do economic, financial, and political predictors miss them, but they are quite ashamed to say anything outlandish to their clients and yet events, it turns out, are almost always outlandish.
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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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If you are in banking and lending, surprise outcomes are likely to be negative for you.
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