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Better Quotes by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better.
- Let me be more aggressive: we are largely better at doing than we are at thinking, thanks to antifragility. I’d rather be dumb and antifragile…
- Also, it's good to have more than one profession, in case your own profession goes out of style. A Wall Street trader who's also a…
- The rationalist imagines an imbecile-free society; the empiricist and imbecile-proof one, or even better, a rationalist-proof one.
- Karl Marx, a visionary, figured out that you can control a slave much better by convincing him he is an employee.
- You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.
- If you have more than one reason to do something (choose a doctor or veterinarian, hire a gardener or an employee, marry a person, go…
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