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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. 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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Modernity widened the distance between the sensational and the relevant.
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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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Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same the antifragile gets better.
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You never win an argument until they attack your person.
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When some systems are stuck in a dangerous impasse, randomness and only randomness can unlock them and set them free.
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Never think that lack of variability is stability. Don't confuse lack of volatility with stability, ever.
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Never take advice from someone wearing a tie.
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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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Avoid losers. If you hear someone use the words 'impossible', 'never', 'too difficult' too often, drop him or her from your social network.
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I always remind myself that what one observes is at best a combination of variance and returns, not just returns.
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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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The book is the only medium left that hasn't been corrupted by the profane.
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There is a certain category of fool-the overeducated, the academic, the journalist, the newspaper reader, the mechanistic scientist, the pseudo-empiricist, those endowed with what I call epistemic arrogance, this wonderful ability to discount what they did not see, the unobserved.
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When I trade, I don't have an agency problem I have my neck on the line. When a bank or banker trades, it's not his neck on the line.
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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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What we need to do is break the financial community's grip on society.
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You want to favor systems that benefit from error, disorder, variability and things like that. You want to favor these systems and unfortunately, when - there's something I call the Soviet Illusion. The more the government becomes intrusive, the more things have to follow a script, and it can't handle this kind of system.
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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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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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