"In poor countries, officials receive explicit bribes; in……" — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
"In poor countries, officials receive explicit bribes; in D.C. they get the sophisticated, implicit, unspoken promise to work for large corporations"
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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 Bribe Quotes
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A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it.
— John le Carre
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When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Never underestimate the effectiveness of a straight cash bribe.
— Claud Cockburn
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It is essential to seek out enemy agents who have come to conduct espionage against you and to bribe them…
— Sun Tzu
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Lobbying' is the activity of attempting to influence legislation by privately influencing the legislators. It is the result and creation…
— Ayn Rand
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Successful ... politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or…
— Walter Lippmann
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No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression. My…
— Abraham Lincoln
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For that, one has to drop all the masks, one has to risk many things, particularly respectability. That is a…
— Rajneesh
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For awareness you need not go to the Himalayas; you need not go anywhere. Your life gives you enough opportunities…
— Rajneesh
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The enemy's spies who have come to spy on us must be sought out, tempted with bribes, led away and…
— Sun Tzu
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Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder.
— Thornton Wilder
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Reason, on the contrary, assures us, that as in so great a number, a fit representative would be most likely…
— James Madison
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