"Governments that try to shoot for a surplus……" — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
"Governments that try to shoot for a surplus hardly ever reach it."
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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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The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience,…
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Until we know what motivates the hearts and minds of men we can understand nothing outside ourselves, nor will we…
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Success is every minute you live. It's the process of living. It's stopping for the moments of beauty, of pleasure;…
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Im crazy about my father, hes an amazing man, a real adventurer. He took us with him to travel all…
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I am not at all sure we could ever reach a peace agreement with the Palestinians' present leadership. We shall…
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The spirit must be freed from tethers so strong and feelings never put to rest, so that the lift of…
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Success is not a destination that you ever reach. Success is the quality of your journey.
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Anybody pretending to be anything other than who you really are-you will never, ever reach your personal potential.
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...he seemed to approach the grave as an hyperbolic curve approaches a line, less directly as he got nearer, till…
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It sometimes strikes me that the whole of science is a piece of impudence; that nature can afford to ignore…
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Your mock saint who stands in a niche is not a woman if she have not suffered, still less a…
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