"A country's assets reside in the tinkerers, the……" — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
"A country's assets reside in the tinkerers, the hobbyists, and the risk-takers."
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219 Quotes by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Nassim Nicholas Taleb has 219 quotes on this site.
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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…
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Hard work will get you a professorship or a BMW. You need both work and luck for a Booker, a…
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Work hard, not in grunt work, but in chasing such opportunities and maximizing exposure to them. This makes living in…
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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…
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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…
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This is the tragedy of modernity: as with neurotically overprotective parents, those trying to help are often hurting us the…
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Many people keep deploring the low level of formal education in the United states (as defined by, say, math grades).…
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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…
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More Assets Quotes
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People are definitely a company's greatest asset. It doesn't make any difference whether the product is cars or cosmetics. A…
— Mary Kay Ash
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In my role as Wikileaks editor, I've been involved in fighting off many legal attacks. To do that, and keep…
— Julian Assange
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Don't let what you don't know scare you, because it can become your greatest asset. And if you do things…
— Sara Blakely
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The music industry is a strange combination of having real and intangible assets: pop bands are brand names in themselves,…
— Richard Branson
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I believe that a newspaper is a great civic asset and that ownership is best in the hands of foundations…
— Eli Broad
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When Gordon the Brown, in London in 1997, commissioned a great inquisition or survey of his new realm, the result…
— James Buchan
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Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, 'Too much of a good…
— Warren Buffett
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Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn't. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that…
— Warren Buffett
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Housing associations have fingered the fact that they cannot use their assets as liquidity due to Bank of England rules…
— Vince Cable
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Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.
— Winston Churchill
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For far too long the world's poorest people have seen no benefit from the vast natural resources in their own…
— Nick Clegg
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Although women do two-thirds of the world's labor, they own less than one percent of the world's assets.
— Isabel Allende
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