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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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Also, it's good to have more than one profession, in case your own profession goes out of style. A Wall Street trader who's also a belly dancer will do a lot better than a trader who winds up driving a taxi.
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The difference between slaves in Roman and Ottoman days and today's employees is that slaves did not need to flatter their boss.
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Don't ask the barber whether you need a haircut, and don't ask an academic if what he does is relevant.
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Anything that provides you with very, very stable income, very stable conditions, maybe generally stable, that often, it masks real risks, risks of blow-ups.
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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.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
It is my great hope someday, to see science and decision makers rediscover what the ancients have always known. Namely that our highest currency is respect.
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Love without sacrifice is like theft
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Success is becoming in middle adulthood what you dreamed to be in late childhood.
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Forecasting by bureaucrats tends to be used for anxiety relief rather than for adequate policy making.
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When some systems are stuck in a dangerous impasse, randomness and only randomness can unlock them and set them free.
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But it remains the case that you know what is wrong with a lot more confidence than you know what is right.
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Prediction, not narration, is the real test of our understanding of the world.
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If something is going on, I hear about it. I like to talk to people, I socialise. Television is a waste of time. Human contact is what matters.
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The fastest way to become rich is to socialize with the poor the fastest way to become poor is to socialize with the rich.
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If you're going to fail, you'd rather fail early than fail late in general.
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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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You want to be yourself, idiosyncratic the collective (school, rules, jobs, technology) wants you generic to the point of castration.
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I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.
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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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Let me be more aggressive: we are largely better at doing than we are at thinking, thanks to antifragility. I’d rather be dumb and antifragile than extremely smart and fragile, any time.
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