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You never win an argument until they attack your person.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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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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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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An erudite is someone who displays less than he knows a journalist or consultant the opposite.
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A mistake is not something to be determined after the fact, but in the light of the information until that point.
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Read books are far less valuable than unread ones.
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If you don't feel that you haven't read enough, you haven't read enough.
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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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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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Education makes the wise slightly wiser, but it makes the fool vastly more dangerous.
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I disagree with the followers of Marx and those of Adam Smith: the reason free markets work is because they allow people to be lucky, thanks to aggressive trial and error, not by giving rewards or incentives for skill.
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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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Banks have never made money in the history of banking, losing the equivalent of all their past profits periodically - while bankers strike it rich.
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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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Economics make homeopath and alternative healers look empirical and scientific.
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Globalization has created this interlocking fragility. At no time in the history of the universe has the cancellation of a Christmas order in New York meant layoffs in China.
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Only the autodidacts are free.
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People used to wear ordinary clothes weekdays, and formal attire on Sunday. Today it is the exact reverse.
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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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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.
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Love without sacrifice is like theft
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