"What we do today has nothing to do……" — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
"What we do today has nothing to do with capitalism or socialism. It is a crony type of system that transfers money to the coffers of bureaucrats."
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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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Medical professionals, not insurance company bureaucrats, should be making health care decisions.
— Barbara Boxer
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Americans have the right to have their medical decisions made by them and their doctors, and not by those bureaucrats…
— Al Gore
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A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Never Forget, even for an instant, that the one and only reason anybody has for taking your gun away is…
— L. Neil Smith
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The proliferation of bureaucrats and its invariable accompaniment, much heavier tax levies on the productive part of the population, are…
— William Henry Chamberlin
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What do oil company executives, vampires and NASA bureaucrats all have in common? They fear solar energy.
— Michio Kaku
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Government ... can't be trusted to control its own bureaucrats or collect taxes equitably or fill a pothole, much less…
— Helen Prejean
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Many pioneers of these industrial changes, it is true, became rich. But they acquired their wealth by supplying the public…
— Ludwig von Mises
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The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of…
— John Berger
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People change their opinion according to your position. And both politicians and bureaucrats begin to take you more seriously, as…
— Rajeev Shukla
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I did attempt to find out if there were any secret government documents that revealed things. If there were, they…
— William J. Clinton
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Washington bureaucrats have classified the very air we exhale as a pollutant and have gone unchallenged in this incredible assertion.…
— Ron Paul
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