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Don't cross a river if it is four feet deep on average.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 11
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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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Debt is a mistake between lender and borrower, and both should suffer.
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I want them poor and they deserve to be poor. You can't have capitalism without punishment.
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Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.
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You will be civilized on the day you can spend a long period doing nothing, learning nothing, and improving nothing, without feeling the slightest amount of guilt.
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Simplicity is not so simple to attain.
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For the classics philosophical insight was the product of a life of leisure for me a life of leisure is the product of philosophical insight.
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We favor the visible, the embedded, the personal, the narrated, and the tangible we scorn the abstract.
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Modernity has replaced ethics with legalese, and the law can be gamed with a good lawyer.
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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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Much of aging comes from a misunderstanding of the effect of comfort.
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To bankrupt a fool, give him information.
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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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You have a real life if and only if you do not compete with anyone in any of your pursuits.
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A man without a heroic bent starts dying at the age of thirty.
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You don't become completely free by just avoiding being a slave you also need to avoid becoming a master.
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They think that intelligence is about noticing things are relevant (detecting patterns) in a complex world, intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant (avoiding false patterns)
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I suppose that the main benefit of being rich (over just being independent) is to be able to despise rich people (a good concentration of whom you find in glitzy ski resorts) without any sour grapes. It is even sweeter when these farts don't know that you are richer than they are.
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Read books are far less valuable than unread ones.
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I've debated many economists who claim to specialize in risk and probability: when one takes them slightly outside their narrow focus, but within the discipline of probability, they fall apart, with the disconsolate face of a gym rat in front of a gangster hit man.
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