"Most people are sceptical about the wrong things……" — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
"Most people are sceptical about the wrong things and gullible about the wrong things."
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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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I had been gullible, naive, soft, pliable. That's why I got taken advantage of. To survive, you have to have…
— Tia Carrere
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Here's your enemy for this week, the government says. And some gullible Americans click their heels and salute - often…
— Charley Reese
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You Americans are so gullible. No, you won't accept communism outright, but we'll keep feeding you small doses of socialism…
— Nikita Khrushchev
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Prior to 1968, the gullible gentiles could take a one dollar Federal Reserve note into any bank in America and…
— Harold Wallace Rosenthal
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I think people are more apt to believe photographs, especially if it’s something fantastic. They’re willing to be more gullible.…
— Cindy Sherman
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People, and not only Americans, are losing their sons, husbands, brothers, and fathers for no other reason than the profits…
— Paul Craig Roberts
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That's the thing about being a Labrador retriever - you were born for fun. Seldom was your loopy, freewheeling mind…
— Carl Hiaasen
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Violence is fomented by the imposition of singular and belligerent identities on gullible people, championed by proficient artisans of terror.
— Amartya Sen
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Normally I would not recommend a book that tells you how to make money in the stock market. Most of…
— Gavyn Davies
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That was the year the British decided to get out and sell everything. So I immediately held an election. I…
— Lee Kuan Yew
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The whole entire existence of the pharmaceutical industry is based on presentation of false science, and advertising this false science…
— Fereydoon Batmanghelidj
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To be able to write a play a man must be sensitive, imaginative, naive, gullible, passionate; he must be something…
— Robert E. Sherwood
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