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What is nonmeasurable and nonpredictable will remain nonmeasurable and nonpredictable ... no matter how much hate mail I get.

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 11
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A prophet is not someone with special visions, just someone blind to most of what others see
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Success is becoming in middle adulthood what you dreamed to be in late childhood.
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The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.
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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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It's not a good idea to take a forecast from someone wearing a tie. If possible, tease people who take themselves and their knowledge too seriously.
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A verbal threat is the most authentic certificate of impotence.
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Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love.
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Most people are sceptical about the wrong things and gullible about the wrong things.
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Realism is punishing. Probabilistic skepticism is worse.
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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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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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An erudite is someone who displays less than he knows a journalist or consultant the opposite.
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The traits I respect are erudition and the courage to stand up when half-men are afraid for their reputation. Any idiot can be intelligent.
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Someone who says I am busy is either declaring incompetence (and lack of control of his life) or trying to get rid of you.
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We glorify those who left their names in history books at the expense of those contributors about whom our books are silent. We humans are not just a superficial race - we are a very unfair one.
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My nightmare scenario is that the government saves Citibank once again, as well as the other banks, and business resumes as usual. Then, the next time the system breaks, it breaks much, much bigger.
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The best test of whether someone is extremely stupid (or extremely wise) is whether financial and political news makes sense to him.
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Prediction, not narration, is the real test of our understanding of the world.
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Ideas come and go, stories stay.
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