"It's not a good idea to take a……" — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
"It's not a good idea to take a forecast from someone wearing a tie. If possible, tease people who take themselves and their knowledge too seriously."
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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 Forecast Quotes
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Growing up in Georgia, my dad was a farmer and we worked in agriculture, so we were always looking up…
— Luke Bryan
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Weather forecast for tonight: dark.
— George Carlin
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Despite the forecast, live like it's Spring.
— Lilly Pulitzer
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Never make the blunder of trying to forecast the way God is going to answer your prayer.
— Oswald Chambers
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It is best to read the weather forecast before praying for rain.
— Mark Twain
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Weathermen merely forecast rain to keep everyone else off the golf course
— Larry David
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Tonight's forecast: DARK. Continued mostly dark tonight, turning to wildly scattered light in the morning
— George Carlin
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It is evident, therefore, that one of the most fundamental problems of psychology is that of investigating the laws of…
— Lewis Terman
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[T]he man who, in the concrete pressure of a struggle for national independence by a single people, had the coolness,…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Why is the forecast so bland? Why instead of 'stormy' don't they just say the sea's 'a frothing maelstrom of…
— Jeremy Clarkson
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If you have to forecast, forecast often..
— Edgar Fiedler
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Champions know that success is inevitable, that there is no such thing as failure, only feedback. They know that the…
— Michael J. Gelb
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