"Hard work will get you a professorship or……" — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
"Hard work will get you a professorship or a BMW. You need both work and luck for a Booker, a Nobel or a private jet."
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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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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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I've debated many economists who claim to specialize in risk and probability: when one takes them slightly outside their narrow…
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More Bmw Quotes
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one of 51 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The better you get, the less you run around showing off as a muscle guy. You know, you wear regular…
— Arnold Schwarzenegger
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If you were to buy a [BMW] 6-series, I recommend you select reverse when leaving friends’ houses so they don’t…
— Jeremy Clarkson
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Voting Tory will cause your wife to have bigger breasts and increase your chances of owning a BMW M3.
— Boris Johnson
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I tend to do something for two years then move on to something new. Yoga, then biking, then weight lifting,…
— Brad Meltzer
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Within a few years the name 'Maria Sharapova' will be a brand as universally recognized as Calvin Klein, BMW and…
— Maria Sharapova
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As you leave these gates and re-enter society, one thing is certain. Everyone out there is going to hate you.…
— Conan O'Brien
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For somebody to take a shot at him is totally disappointing and hurtful to my family, my mother, his wife…
— Rick Hendrick
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I don't understand people whose gratification is a BMW. You don't know what joy is until you see a kid…
— Andrew Vachss
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For average working folks, America was becoming a puzzle. Who was buying all these two-hundred-dollar copper saucepans, anyway? And how…
— Daniel Suarez
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The great Western disease is, ‘I'll be happy when... When I get the money. When I get a BMW. When…
— Marshall Goldsmith
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You can stick a BMW badge on a dead cat - and people would still buy it.
— Richard Hammond
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The paid-off home mortgage has taken the place of the BMW as the status symbol of choice.
— Dave Ramsey
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