"To bankrupt a fool, give him information." — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
"To bankrupt a fool, give him information."
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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 Bankrupt Quotes
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Character is greater than talent, genius, fame, money, friends - there is nothing to compare with it. A man may…
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I was raised on government cheese. As an adult, in my first marriage, my husband and I worked real hard…
— Roseanne Barr
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Now, people when I say that look at me and say, 'What are you talking about, Joe? You're telling me…
— Joe Biden
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We cannot continue. Our pension costs and health care costs for our employees are going to bankrupt this city.
— Michael Bloomberg
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Those who remember New York in the 1970s, as I do, look back on a city that had hit a…
— Graydon Carter
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The worst bankrupt in the world is the man who has lost his enthusiasm. Let a man lose everything else…
— William Howard Arnold
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Democracy is a form of government that cannot long survive, for as soon as the people learn that they have…
— Karl Marx
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The use or abuse of Christianity in contradiction to the very message of the gospel reveals not the gospel for…
— Ravi Zacharias
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The budget should be balanced, the treasury refilled, public debt reduced, the arrogance of officialdom tempered and controlled, and the…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the characters of individuals.
— Henry David Thoreau
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The national budget must be balanced. The public debt must be reduced; the arrogance of the authorities must be moderated…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The more I learnt about this cheeky - almost rebellious - company, the more it appealed to me, as it…
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