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Needs Quotes by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Hard work will get you a professorship or a BMW. You need both work and luck for a Booker, a Nobel or a private jet.
- You don't become completely free by just avoiding being a slave; you also need to avoid becoming a master.
- In science you need to understand the world; in business you need others to misunderstand it.
- You need a story to displace a story.
- What we need to do is break the financial community's grip on society.
- We know from chaos theory that even if you had a perfect model of the world, you'd need infinite precision in order to predict future…
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- You teach best what you most need to learn. — Richard Bach
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