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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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Our two-party system is a fraud, a sham, a delusion. On foreign policy, trade, immigration, Big Government, we have one-party government, one…
— Pat Buchanan
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Wall Street never changes, the pockets change, the suckers change, the stocks change, but Wall Street never changes, because human nature never…
— Jesse Lauriston Livermore
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It was a sucker punch. But you know who gets hit by sucker punches? Suckers.
— Unknown Author
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I love the little suckers; they're so cute but I love sleep so much and I worry about everything.
— Eva Mendes
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If critics and fanboys weren't suckers for simplistic nihilism and high-pressure marketing, Afterlife would be universally acclaimed as a visionary feat, superior…
— Armond White
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Fundamentally, people are suckers for the truth.
— Donald Sutherland
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I wear black while suckers wear pink.
— Kool Keith
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He had never been a social man. He had shunned causes with contempt and disgust. They were for pig-simple suckers and people…
— Stephen King
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Suckers try to win arguments, nonsuckers try to win.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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You have been told that God is a loving, gracious, merciful, kind, compassionate, wonderful, and good sky fairy who runs a day…
— Mark Driscoll
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A beaver is about like the ninjas the suckers only work at night and they're hard to find.
— Si Robertson
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Not only are bloggers suckers for the remarkable, so are the people who read blogs.
— Seth Godin
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