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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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I've always been in serious relationships. I meet someone and date him for a long period. I don't sit there thinking, like,…
— Gisele Bundchen
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That's the thing about pictures: they seduce you.
— David Byrne
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Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that's what…
— Albert Camus
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Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if…
— Lord Chesterfield
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Tolerance - the function of an extinguished ardor - tolerance cannot seduce the young.
— Emile M. Cioran
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It's easy to become a satellite today without even being aware of it. This country can seduce God. Yes, it has that…
— Malcolm X
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Mountains of gold would not seduce some men, yet flattery would break them down.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast, With witchcraft of his wit, with traitorous gifts- O wicked wit and gifts, that have the…
— William Shakespeare
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Successful ... politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or otherwise manage…
— Walter Lippmann
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Fashion is a MUSE, you must seduce her.
— Anna Dello Russo
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We shall suffer no attachment to literature, no taste for abstract discussion, no love of purely intellectual theories, to seduce us from…
— George Ripley
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I don't use my body to seduce, no. I just stand there.
— Ursula Andress
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