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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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Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same the antifragile gets better.
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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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Economics make homeopath and alternative healers look empirical and scientific.
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An option hides where we don't want it to hide.
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I hated school because I liked to daydream and the system tried to stop me from that.
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The number of managers with great track records in a given market depends far more on the number of people who started in the investment business (in place of going to dental school), rather than on their ability to produce profits.
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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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Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.
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If humans fight the last war, nature fights the next one.
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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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Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.
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Prediction, not narration, is the real test of our understanding of the world.
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A competitive athlete is painful to look at trying hard to become an animal rather than a man, he will never be as fast as a cheetah or as strong as an ox.
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Modernity has replaced ethics with legalese, and the law can be gamed with a good lawyer.
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