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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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Oh yes, there's lots of great food in America. But the fast food is about as destructive and evil as it gets.…
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The world hates us, but the bottom line is we're gonna have to show the world why they hate us by bombing…
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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.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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This continuing spike in gas prices is bad for consumers, bad for our economy, and bad for all other businesses. It is…
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Six months have passed since that horrible, horrible event of terrorism in the twin towers and Washington. I hope people all over…
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We were always contradicting ourselves. We wanted to be told apart - We didn't want to be told apart. We wanted people…
— Kaoru
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It wasn't what we needed then that was hurting us, it was what we was paying for that we had already used…
— Will Rogers
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Love is never easy. We begin by loving the things we can, according to our stature, but it is not long before…
— Alison Croggon
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The deepest wounds aren't the ones we get from other people hurting us. They are the wounds we give ourselves when we…
— Isobelle Carmody
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It is the people closest to us, that are capable of hurting us most.
— Nishan Panwar
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We will not stop till we get the desired result and often we do. We need to just let it all go.…
— Superman
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Girls keep bragging how us boys hurting them, but in the reality they never realise they are the one that keep hurting…
— William Yap
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