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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Lebanese Scientist
Born: 1960
About Money People Think Will You
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Never take advice from anyone in a tie. They'll bankrupt you. Don't ask a general for advice on war, and don't ask a broker for advice on money. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
War You Money Advice Broker General Take Never Never Take Tie Bankrupt Anyone Ask
Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Education Learning Too Much College Enjoy Too Mark Mark Zuckerberg Worry Jobs About Finish Emphasis Steve Steve Jobs Grades Children Formal Formal Education Placed Much Bill Bill Gates Gates
The next time you experience a blackout, take some solace by looking at the sky. You will not recognize it. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Time You Experience Sky Will Looking Solace Recognize Some Blackout Take Next Next Time
Individuals should think about the worst-case scenarios and plan for them. The world will be crazier than you think it will be. Put money away, and then you can live with much more freedom. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Freedom You World Money Will Live Think About More Scenarios Put Individuals Than Crazier Them Plan Then Much Should Away
For many people, commuting is the worst part of the day, and policies that can make commuting shorter and more convenient would be a straightforward way to reduce minor but widespread suffering. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Day Suffering People Way Worst Would Would-Be Minor More Part Make Policies Reduce Convenient Straightforward Commuting Many Widespread
Paul Krugman is a danger to society! Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Society Danger Paul
Capitalism has forced everyone to overoptimize in order to compete. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Capitalism Everyone Forced Order Compete
We humans lack imagination, to the point of not even knowing what tomorrow's important things will look like. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Tomorrow Will Important Important Things Imagination Point Like Look Knowing Lack Even Things Humans
The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Bear Debts Grandchildren Should Grandparents
I don't go to the doctor except when I'm very ill, and when I go to India, I drink a drop of local water. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Doctor Water Drop Local India Drink Except Go Very Ill
I don't know anyone on Wall Street who goes to work every day thinking of anything but how to increase their bonus. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Work Day Every Day Every Thinking Increase Bonus Know How Wall Wall Street Goes Anyone Anything Who Street
Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Capitalism People Mistakes Others About Adventurers Get Who Harm Harmed
If you take risks and face your fate with dignity, there is nothing you can do that makes you small; if you don't take risks, there is nothing you can do that makes you grand, nothing. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
You Risks Dignity Fate Face Nothing Small Take Makes Grand Your
Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Loneliness Suffering Poverty Others Emotional Clearly Like Source
Nobody reads the disclosures that roll down your computer screen. You click 'I agree' but you don't know what you're agreeing to. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
You Down Computer Computer Screen Nobody Know Click Reads Roll Screen Your Agree Agreeing
The mortgage crisis is a clear instance of consumers who needed protection. There was predatory lending to people who didn't know what they were doing. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
People Protection Crisis Consumers Instance Clear Mortgage Know Doing Were Predatory Lending Who Needed
Governments that try to shoot for a surplus hardly ever reach it. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Try Reach Surplus Governments Shoot Ever Hardly
Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Democracy Well Austerity Very Handle Measures
The key to wealth is that it doesn't matter. Once you've had it, you don't think anything of it; you can wear cheap watches. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
You Key Wealth Matter Think Once Wear Had Cheap Anything Watches
Banking is a very treacherous business because you don't realize it is risky until it is too late. It is like calm waters that deliver huge storms. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
You Business Too Late Calm Too Waters Late Risky Deliver Like Until Because Huge Very Banking Storms Realize Treacherous
Debt is a mistake between lender and borrower, and both should suffer. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Mistake Borrower Both Between Debt Lender Should Suffer
Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Success Feeling Honour Defines Some About Morally Absence Shame Metric Newspaper Success Is External
What we need to do is break the financial community's grip on society. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Financial Community Society Break Grip Need
You will get the most attention from those who hate you. No friend, no admirer and no partner will flatter you with as much curiosity. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
You Hate Will Partner Those Admirer Attention Most Friend Curiosity Get Flatter Much Who
Never think that lack of variability is stability. Don't confuse lack of volatility with stability, ever. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Confuse Think Variability Volatility Never Stability Lack Ever
The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
World Live Think Vastly Different
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