"It was obvious that their profits were simply……" — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
"It was obvious that their profits were simply cash borrowed from destiny with some random payback time."
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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 Borrowed Quotes
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A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from…
— John James Audubon
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I never took a grant or borrowed a penny from anybody. It was partially because I didn't really know how…
— Bryan Adams
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Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.
— Walter Benjamin
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People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing…
— Warren G. Bennis
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You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money.
— William J. H. Boetcker
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The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole…
— Dale Carnegie
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I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then -…
— Agatha Christie
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Posterity is the world to come; the world for whom we hold our ideals, from whom we have borrowed our…
— William J. Clinton
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It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the…
— George Steiner
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Still, even the most admirable of atheists is nothing more than a moral parasite, living his life based on borrowed…
— Theodore Beale
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Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation…
— Abraham Flexner
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To substitute judgments of fact for judgments of value is a sign of pedantic and borrowed criticism.
— George Santayana
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