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Them Quotes by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- I no longer care about the financial system. I gave them my roadmap. OK? Thanks, bye. I've no idea what's going on. I'm disconnected. I'm…
- Work hard, not in grunt work, but in chasing such opportunities and maximizing exposure to them. This makes living in big cities invaluable because you…
- Answer e-mails from junior people before more senior ones. Junior people have further to go and tend to remember who slighted them.
- I've debated many economists who claim to specialize in risk and probability: when one takes them slightly outside their narrow focus, but within the discipline…
- Never ask anyone for their opinion, forecast, or recommendation. Just ask them what they have—or don’t have—in their portfolio.
- We should reward people, not ridicule them, for thinking the impossible.
- If one puts an infinite number of monkeys in front of typewriters, and lets them clap away, there is a certainty that one of them…
- People are much less interested in what you are trying to show them than what you are trying to hide.
- The narrative fallacy addresses our limited ability to look at sequences of facts without weaving an explanation into them, or, equivalently, forcing a logical link,…
- I want them poor and they deserve to be poor. You can't have capitalism without punishment.
- We should probably stop trading derivatives, anything more complex than regular options ... I am an options trader, and I don't understand options. How do…
- The characteristic feature of the loser is to bemoan, in general terms, mankind's flaws, biases, contradictions, and irrationality - without exploiting them for fun and…
- Charm is the ability to insult people without offending them; nerdiness the reverse
- I suspect the I.Q., SAT, and school grades are tests designed by nerds so they can get high scores in order to call each other…
- Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also…
- Individuals should think about the worst-case scenarios and plan for them. The world will be crazier than you think it will be. Put money away,…
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- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster