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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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Life really went backwards. My parents lost everything, all their savings, because we had to run from the Nigerian side to the…
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Financial service providers act as the lubricating oil in the economy. They link consumers who want to invest their savings for a…
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No investment on earth is so safe, so sure, so certain to enrich its owners as undeveloped realty. I always advise my…
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Obviously, our most pressing need is subsistence for the most vulnerable victims of Katrina, but we should not overlook the fact that…
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It is more dangerous to be a great prophet or poet than to promote twenty companies for swindling simple folk out of…
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With Americans worried about losing their jobs, their savings, their homes and their chance at the American Dream, the New Direction Congress…
— Nancy Pelosi
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Alan: Conning people out of their savings. Forgery. Blackmail. Selling real estate on Mars. We could have it all. You with me,…
— Sarah Rees Brennan
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Lukewarm people do not live by faith; their lives are structured so they never have to. They don't have to trust God…
— Francis Chan
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My parents lost everything, all their savings, because we had to run from the Nigerian side to the Biafran side. We were…
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We have this culture of financialization. People think they need to make money with their savings rather with their own business. So…
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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