"Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by……" — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
"Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes."
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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 Adventurer Quotes
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one of 87 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Governments of rich countries spend some $6bn of tax money a year on disaster relief and development aid overseas, while…
— James Buchan
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It is unfortunate that so much of the history of Africa has been written by conquerors, foreigners, missionaries and adventurers.…
— John Henrik Clarke
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Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books:…
— Isabel Allende
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That faculty of beholding at a hint the face of his desire and the shape of his dream, without which…
— Joseph Conrad
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The bold adventurer succeeds the best.
— Ovid
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We're not home-and-hearth people. We're the adventurers, the buccaneers, the blockade runners. Without challenge, we're only alive.
— Alexander Eliot
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Chance is the providence of adventurers.
— Laurence Sterne
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I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
— Vincent Van Gogh
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Adventurer: he that goes to meet whatever may come. Well, that is what we all do in the world one…
— H. Rider Haggard
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He had not a cent in his pocket, but he had faith. He had decided, the night before, that he…
— Paulo Coelho
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Every flyer who ventures across oceans to distant lands is a potential explorer; in his or her breast burns the…
— Jean Batten
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None but the ignorant can be bored by life. To the lovers of learning, life is pure adventure shared with…
— Pearl S. Buck
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