"A mistake is not something to be determined……" — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
"A mistake is not something to be determined after the fact, but in the light of the information until that point."
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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 Determined Quotes
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one of 1,429 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
— Hannah Arendt
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Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason…
— Aristotle
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If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will…
— Abigail Adams
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Filibusters have proliferated because under current rules just one or two determined senators can stop the Senate from functioning. Today,…
— Evan Bayh
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America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence…
— Jane Addams
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What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when…
— Alexander Graham Bell
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The proud depend upon the world to tell them whether they have value or not. Their self-esteem is determined by…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.
— Alfred Adler
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He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle.
— Aneurin Bevan
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I am determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive.
— Theodore Bikel
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My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.
— Buffalo Bill
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Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but how we react to what happens, not by what…
— Wade Boggs
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