"People are much less interested in what you……" — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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"People are much less interested in what you are trying to show them than what you are trying to hide."

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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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…
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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The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that… — Hannah Arendt
There is a way to look at the past. Don't hide from it. It will not catch you if you… — Pearl Bailey
The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to… — James A. Baldwin
I love my fan base because they never high-five me; they always get really shifty and hide. Adam Sandler's fan… — Kate Beckinsale
My parents didn't hide reality. I watched cartoons and the news with equal fascination. — Jello Biafra
You find out in life that people really like you funny. So what do you give 'em? Humor. And then… — Terry Bradshaw
A good culture in a hospital can absorb and manage a few bad nurses, but once the culture becomes bad… — Jo Brand
Honest people don't hide their deeds. — Emily Bronte
That's the ultimate goal of most turkey recipes: to create a great skin and stuffing to hide the fact that… — Alton Brown
In a crisis, don't hide behind anything or anybody. They're going to find you anyway. — Bear Bryant
As you get older and fatter, good clothes can hide a lot. — Graydon Carter
The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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