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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 11
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Simplicity is not so simple to attain.
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If you're going to fail, you'd rather fail early than fail late in general.
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When we want to do something while unconsciously certain to fail, we seek advice so we can blame someone else for the failure.
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Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.
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By setting oneself totally free of constraints, free of thoughts, free of this debilitating activity called work, free of efforts, elements hidden in the texture of reality start staring at you then mysteries that you never thought existed emerge in front of your eyes.
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The book is the only medium left that hasn't been corrupted by the profane.
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He who has never sinned is less reliable than he who has only sinned once.
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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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It does not matter how frequently something succeeds if failure is too costly to bear.
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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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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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Never take advice from someone wearing a tie.
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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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Life is a tightrope between two errors: generalizing the wrong particular and particularizing the wrong general.
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Education makes the wise slightly wiser, but it makes the fool vastly more dangerous.
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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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true humility is when you can surprise yourself more than others the rest is either shyness or good marketing
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There is no effective difference between guessing a variable that is not random, but for which information is partial or deficient, and a random one. In this sense, guessing (what I don't know, but what someone else may know) and predicting (what has not taken place yet) are the same thing.
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Don't read newspapers for the news (just for the gossip and, of course, profiles of authors). The best filter to know if the news matters is if you hear it in cafes, restaurants... or (again) parties.
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Debt is a mistake between lender and borrower, and both should suffer.
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