"Debt is a mistake between lender and borrower,……" — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
"Debt is a mistake between lender and borrower, and both should suffer."
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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 Borrower Quotes
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one of 23 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I'm no innovator. If anything I'm a stealer, or borrower. I've stolen or borrowed from more people than you can…
— Bear Bryant
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Then came the second Amsterdam discovery, although the principle was known elsewhere. Bank deposits...did not need to be left idly…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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The borrower is slave to the lender and the debtor to the creditor.
— Benjamin Franklin
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Good nature is the cheapest commodity in the world, and love is the only thing that will pay ten percent…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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When a bank makes a loan, it simply adds to the borrower's deposit account by the amount of the loan.…
— Robert Anderson
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The book borrower...proves himself to be an inveterate collector of books not so much by the fervor with which he…
— Walter Benjamin
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Total borrowing has imploded. Private borrowing has collapsed. And, in effect, the Treasury Department is the last borrower left standing.
— Peter R. Orszag
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Lenders look at potential borrowers from many angles before extending credit: How much of its income will a household need…
— Mark Zandi
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Borrowed thoughts, like borrowed money, only show the poverty of the borrower.
— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
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The shoulders of a borrower are always a little straighter than those of a beggar.
— Morris L. Ernst
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Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.
— Alan Greenspan
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