Should Quotes by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

14 Should quotes by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Taleb’s contrarian edge surfaces in these fourteen notes, where he challenges conventional wisdom about risk, responsibility, and the logic behind our actions.

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Debt is a mistake between lender and borrower, and both should suffer.

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Never, never, never think - that's one lesson you should have in life. Never think that lack of variability is stability.

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We should reward people, not ridicule them, for thinking the impossible.

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The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.

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We should ban banks from risk-taking because society is going to pay the price.

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In social policy, when we provide a safety net, it should be designed to help people take more entrepreneurial risks, not to…

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The psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer has a simple heuristic. Never ask the doctor what you should do. Ask him what he would do…

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Individuals should think about the worst-case scenarios and plan for them. The world will be crazier than you think it will be.…

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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…

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It is often the mistakes of others that benefit the rest of us and, sadly, not them ... For the antifragile, harm…

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We should probably stop trading derivatives, anything more complex than regular options ... I am an options trader, and I don't understand…

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Further, in writing, I feel corrupt and unethical if I have to look up a subject in a library as part of…

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We have this culture of financialization. People think they need to make money with their savings rather with their own business. So…

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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…

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Using, as an excuse, others' failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense.

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We learn the most from fools ... yet we pay them back with the worst ingratitude.

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