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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
It might be useful to be able to predict war. But tension does not necessarily lead to war, but often to peace and to denouement. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
War Peace Predict Able Lead Tension Does Often Might Useful Necessarily
When I trade, I don't have an agency problem; I have my neck on the line. When a bank or banker trades, it's not his neck on the line. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Problem Trade Trades Line His Bank Banker Agency Neck
In social policy, when we provide a safety net, it should be designed to help people take more entrepreneurial risks, not to turn them into dependents. This doesn't mean that we should be callous to the underprivileged. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Risks People Safety Net More Entrepreneurial Take Policy Callous Safety Net Underprivileged Provide Mean Social Them Turn Should Help Social Policy Help People Designed
When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
You People Matters About Constraints Having Write Abstract Talk Front Social
What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Best Failure Ability Accept Does America Produce
Most people are sceptical about the wrong things and gullible about the wrong things. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
People Gullible About Sceptical Wrong Wrong Things Most Things
I have never had personal debt and never will. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Will Never Had Debt Personal
I've been telling anyone willing to listen that banks have a tendency to sit on time bombs while convincing themselves that they are conservative and nonvolatile. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Time Conservative Sit Telling Willing Tendency Been Listen Anyone Banks While Themselves Convincing Bombs
Economics make homeopath and alternative healers look empirical and scientific. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Economics Empirical Look Healers Make Alternative Scientific
I don't read the papers; I stopped reading the papers. I read the papers only during periods of crisis, and I think papers are too long on a regular day and too short days when we have a crisis. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Day Long Reading Think Too Papers Crisis Only Days Periods Read Short Stopped Regular
Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Science Economist Least Than Closer Any Being Ethical Profession
I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
God Religion Arrogance Favour Outside Idea Terms George George Bush Greek Human Bush Creator Orthodox
Writing is sacred, other activities are profane, and I don't want them to corrupt my writing. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Writing Other Corrupt Sacred Want Them Profane Activities
The American people will eventually get hurt by this accumulated deficit. That's the problem. We have too much deficit. We have to find a solution. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Hurt People Problem Too Much Will Too Deficit Solution Find Accumulate Get American American People Much Eventually
When you ask people, 'What's the opposite of fragile?,' they tend to say robust, resilient, adaptable, solid, strong. That's not it. The opposite of fragile is something that gains from disorder. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
You People Strong Say Solid Something Tend Robust Opposite Gains Ask Disorder Resilient Adaptable Fragile
I no longer care about the financial system. I gave them my roadmap. OK? Thanks, bye. I've no idea what's going on. I'm disconnected. I'm totally disengaged. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Financial Care Thanks Gave OK System Financial System No Idea Totally About Idea Longer Disconnected Disengaged Going Them Bye
I'm a private intellectual, not a public one. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Private Intellectual Public
You have family-owned businesses that have been around for 500 years. You cannot name a corporation that survives intact for even a few decades. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
You Few Corporation Name Around Intact Been Years Survives Decades Family-Owned Cannot Businesses Even
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
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