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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 11
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It is a sign of weakness to avoid showing signs of weakness.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
A washing machine needs constant maintenance. It doesn't want any harm. It wants tranquility, and you need someone to - you're not going to harm it by continuously monitoring it and adjusting it.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
If you are in banking and lending, surprise outcomes are likely to be negative for you.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
A good maxim allows you to have the last word without even starting a conversation.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Never think that lack of variability is stability. Don't confuse lack of volatility with stability, ever.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
It's harder to say 'no' when you really mean it.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Dress your best on your execution day. Be extremely courteous to your assistant when you lose money. Try not to blame others for your fate, even if they deserve blame. Never exhibit any self-pity. Do not complain.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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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I remind myself of Einstein's remark that common sense is nothing but a collection of misconceptions acquired by age 18.
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Paul Krugman is a danger to society!
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Those who do not think that employment is systemic slavery are either blind or employed.
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This is the tragedy of modernity: as with neurotically overprotective parents, those trying to help are often hurting us the most.
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Never trust a journalist unless she's your mother.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Don't ask the barber whether you need a haircut, and don't ask an academic if what he does is relevant.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
When some systems are stuck in a dangerous impasse, randomness and only randomness can unlock them and set them free.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Just as being nice to the arrogant is no better than being arrogant toward the nice, being accommodating toward anyone committing a nefarious action condones it.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Maximum of an average is necessarily less volatile than the average maximum
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Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness.
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