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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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More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them
— J. Harold Smith
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Remember this: When you are doing nothing, those speculators who feel they must trade day in and day out, are laying the…
— Jesse Lauriston Livermore
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We all make mistakes, but the people who thrive from their mistakes are the successful ones.
— Henry Cloud
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Many people fail not so much because of their mistakes; they fail because they are afraid to try.
— George Foreman
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All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.
— Winston Churchill
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Entrepreneurs make fast decisions and move forward knowing that at best 70% of their decisions are going to be right. They move…
— Mark Suster
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I am grateful to learn from their mistakes, because I am not injecting s- into my face. I see them and my…
— Jennifer Aniston
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That was one of the big problems in the [Black Panther] Party. Criticism and self-criticism were not encouraged, and the little that…
— Assata Shakur
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Everyone makes mistakes. How a person deals with their mistakes is a mark of their character.
— Terry Goodkind
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It is always important in matters of high politics to know what you do not know. Those who think that they know,…
— Margaret Thatcher
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To look at the work of your peers, and learn how to explain with kindness and precision, the nature of their mistakes…
— Steve Almond
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Sometimes... I think parents work so hard to keep us from making their mistakes, they won't allow us to make our own.
— Charles Sheehan-Miles
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