"I don't read the papers; I stopped reading……" — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
"I don't read the papers; I stopped reading the papers. I read the papers only during periods of crisis, and I think papers are too long on a regular day and too short days when we have a crisis."
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219 Quotes by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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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 Crisis Quotes
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The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently;…
— Aristotle
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In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time.…
— Brooks Atkinson
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The School Energy Crisis Relief Act authorizes the Secretary of Energy to issue energy assistance grants to help the poorest…
— Joe Baca
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It was clear soon after his election that Obama, like FDR, wanted to start dealing with the economic crisis immediately…
— Russell Baker
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Beyond politics, the West is suffering from what can be called a crisis of brokenness - broken institutions, broken families…
— Gary Bauer
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I really do think that any deep crisis is an opportunity to make your life extraordinary in some way.
— Martha Beck
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Every State has the primary duty to protect its own population from grave and sustained violations of human rights, as…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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The lesson of history is that you do not get a sustained economic recovery as long as the financial system…
— Ben Bernanke
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Importantly, in the 1930s, in the Great Depression, the Federal Reserve, despite its mandate, was quite passive and, as a…
— Ben Bernanke
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The crisis and recession have led to very low interest rates, it is true, but these events have also destroyed…
— Ben Bernanke
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If you can capture the humanity of a family struggling in an economic crisis you can make a difference. You…
— Emily Blunt
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Apart from a period of crisis during my adolescence, when my voice was changing and I could not tame it…
— Andrea Bocelli
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