"People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting……" — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
"People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable."
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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 Employed Quotes
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one of 344 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow…
— Charles Babbage
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The fatigue produced on the muscles of the human frame does not altogether depend on the actual force employed in…
— Charles Babbage
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FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the…
— Felix Adler
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When you cease from labour, fill up your time in reading, meditation, and prayer: and while your hands are labouring,…
— David Brainerd
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Very good cooks who are employed as 'chefs' rarely refer to themselves as 'chefs.' They refer to themselves as 'cooks.'
— Alton Brown
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The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in…
— Joseph Butler
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The rule for effective governance is simple. It is one Ronald Reagan knew by heart. And one that he successfully…
— Chris Christie
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Nothing is so dangerous as that of violence employed by well-meaning people for beneficial objects.
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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what is wanting to restore us to our station among our confederates? not more money from the people. enough has…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Spies cannot be usefully employed without a certain intuitive sagacity.
— Sun Tzu
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Very little in science fiction can transcend the gimmickry of a technical conceit, yet without that conceit at its heart…
— Janet Morris
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The army from Asia introduced a foreign luxury to Rome; it was then the meals began to require more dishes…
— Livy
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