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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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Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.
— Johann Gottfried Herder
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I've debated many economists who claim to specialize in risk and probability: when one takes them slightly outside their narrow focus, but…
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There are thousands ready to die for their religion, but only are few willing to live by its principles. Because of their…
— Mata Amritanandamayi
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If the wolf is to survive, the wolf haters must be outnumbered. They must be outshouted, out financed, and out voted. Their…
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Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only…
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Small minds cannot grasp great ideas; to their narrow comprehension, their purblind vision, nothing seems really great and important but themselves.
— James G. Frazer
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Crowded hallways are the loneliest places For outcasts and rebels Or anyone who just dares to be different And you've been trying…
— Unknown Author
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