"Luck is the grand equalizer." — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

"Luck is the grand equalizer."

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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219 Quotes by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Nassim Nicholas Taleb has 219 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

I no longer care about the financial system. I gave them my roadmap. OK? Thanks, bye. I've no idea what's…
Hard work will get you a professorship or a BMW. You need both work and luck for a Booker, a…
Work hard, not in grunt work, but in chasing such opportunities and maximizing exposure to them. This makes living in…
...maximize the serendipity around you.
Answer e-mails from junior people before more senior ones. Junior people have further to go and tend to remember who…
Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better.
He who has never sinned is less reliable than he who has only sinned once.
Modernity has replaced ethics with legalese, and the law can be gamed with a good lawyer.
Let me be more aggressive: we are largely better at doing than we are at thinking, thanks to antifragility. I’d…
This is the tragedy of modernity: as with neurotically overprotective parents, those trying to help are often hurting us the…
Many people keep deploring the low level of formal education in the United states (as defined by, say, math grades).…
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 Equalizer Quotes

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Governance should be designed as an equalizer. Democrats are more inclined towards working families and those who are struggling for… — Jimmy Carter
Weightless is a great equalizer. — Sally Ride
I hated tobacco. I could have almost lent my support to any institution that had for its object the putting… — Thomas Huxley
Sport is a great equalizer that can build bridges, transcend borders and cultures, and render even the fiercest conflicts temporarily… — Richard Attias
In life you may be poor or rich, but death is the great equalizer. The greatest communism is in death.… — Rajneesh
The great equalizer is health. If you don't have it, you're screwed. — Jami Gertz
I am a firm believer in education and have worked very hard to tell young Latinos that they must go… — Jimmy Smits
Time is an amazing equalizer. I think if you stay true to yourself and keep moving forward, things come around. — Demi Moore
The tank, the B-52, the fighter-bomber, the state-controlled police and military are the weapons of dictatorship. The rifle is the… — Edward Abbey
Social media is the ultimate equalizer. It gives a voice and a platform to anyone willing to engage. — Amy Jo Martin
Progress for black Americans depends on good schools because education is the last great equalizer. — Alphonso Jackson
I believe education is the great equalizer. — Dave Heineman

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