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Nassim Nicholas Taleb has 219 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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.…
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Hard work will get you a professorship or a BMW. You need both work and luck for a Booker, a Nobel or…
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Work hard, not in grunt work, but in chasing such opportunities and maximizing exposure to them. This makes living in big cities…
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...maximize the serendipity around you.
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Answer e-mails from junior people before more senior ones. Junior people have further to go and tend to remember who slighted them.
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Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better.
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He who has never sinned is less reliable than he who has only sinned once.
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Modernity has replaced ethics with legalese, and the law can be gamed with a good lawyer.
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Let me be more aggressive: we are largely better at doing than we are at thinking, thanks to antifragility. I’d rather be…
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This is the tragedy of modernity: as with neurotically overprotective parents, those trying to help are often hurting us the most.
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Many people keep deploring the low level of formal education in the United states (as defined by, say, math grades). Yet these…
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But they never notice the following inconsistency: this so-called worst-case event, when it happened, exceeded the worst case at the time.
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During periods of discontinuous, abrupt change, the essence of adaptation involves a keen sensitivity to what should be abandoned - not what…
— Peter Drucker
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During periods of relaxation after concentrated intellectual activity, the intuitive mind seems to take over and can produce the sudden clarifying insights…
— Fritjof Capra
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What would things been like [in Russia] if during periods of mass arrests people had not simply sat there, paling with terror…
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Gain control of the mind and make it still, initially just during periods of meditation, but then throughout the day and throughout…
— Frederick Lenz
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We stand for a living wage. Wages are subnormal if they fail to provide a living for those who devote their time…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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Children, it should be repeated, are not pocket editions of adults, because childhood is a period of physical growth and development, a…
— Grace Abbott
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I don't read the papers; I stopped reading the papers. I read the papers only during periods of crisis, and I think…
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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A lot of joblessness in the black community doesn't seem to be reachable through fiscal and monetary policies. People have not been…
— William Julius Wilson
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Throughout the nineteen-seventies and eighties, especially during periods of recession, employees were moved from offices to cubicles.
— Jill Lepore
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