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Because Quotes by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Banking is a very treacherous business because you don't realize it is risky until it is too late. It is like calm waters that deliver…
- We should ban banks from risk-taking because society is going to pay the price.
- Failure saves lives. In the airline industry, every time a plane crashes the probability of the next crash is lowered by that. The Titanic saved…
- The Internet allows the small guy a global marketplace. But technology is harmful in the sense that we get too much information from it. Because…
- I hated school because I liked to daydream and the system tried to stop me from that.
- Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also…
More Because Quotes
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself. — Pietro Aretino
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D. — J. J. Abrams
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle