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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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The sucker's trap is when you focus on what you know and what others don't know, rather than the reverse.
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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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Asking science to explain life and vital matters is equivalent to asking a grammarian to explain poetry.
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If you're going to fail, you'd rather fail early than fail late in general.
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Charm is the ability to insult people without offending them nerdiness the reverse
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Debt is a mistake between lender and borrower, and both should suffer.
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Ideas come and go, stories stay.
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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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To bankrupt a fool, give him information.
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Things always become obvious after the fact
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Is the economy something organic or is it something engineered? I think it's closer to the organic. You harm it by artificially suppressing volatility in it.
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Never trust a journalist unless she's your mother.
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Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.
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As countries get rich they start increasing education and the very educated people tend to not like trial and error, because they think they're obligated to use the body of knowledge they have.
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Experience is devoid of the cherry-picking that we find in studies.
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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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To succeed in life requires a total inability to do anything that makes you uncomfortable when you look at yourself in the mirror.
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Modernity widened the distance between the sensational and the relevant.
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Those who do not think that employment is systemic slavery are either blind or employed.
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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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