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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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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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Karl Marx, a visionary, figured out that you can control a slave much better by convincing him he is an employee.
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Probability is not a mere computation of odds on the dice or more complicated variants it is the acceptance of the lack of certainty in our knowledge and the development of methods for dealing with our ignorance.
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I no longer care about the financial system. I gave them my roadmap. OK? Thanks, bye. I've no idea what's going on. I'm disconnected. I'm totally disengaged.
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The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.
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Private equity has absolutely no reason to exist. The private equity holder has all the upside and the banks all the downside.
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Probability is not about the odds, but about the belief in the existence of an alternative outcome, cause, or motive.
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They are born, put in a box they go home to live in a box they study by ticking boxes they go to what is called work in a box, where they sit in their cubicle box they drive to the grocery store in a box to buy food in a box they talk about thinking outside the box and when they die they are put in a box.
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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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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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Asking science to explain life and vital matters is equivalent to asking a grammarian to explain poetry.
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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.
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Don't read newspapers for the news (just for the gossip and, of course, profiles of authors). The best filter to know if the news matters is if you hear it in cafes, restaurants... or (again) parties.
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Economic life should be definancialised. We should learn not to use markets as storehouses of value: they do not harbour the certainties that normal citizens require. Citizens should experience anxiety about their own businesses (which they control), not their investments (which they do not control).
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It is a sign of weakness to avoid showing signs of weakness.
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Your reputation is harmed the most by what you say to defend it.
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You don't become completely free by just avoiding being a slave you also need to avoid becoming a master.
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