Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes

• Don't aim to be perfect! Aim to be antifragile

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  Perfect, Aim

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• Intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant.

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  Irrelevante

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.1783, Random House

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• Muscles without strength, friendship without trust, opinion without risk, change without aesthetics, age without values, food without nourishment, power without fairness, facts without rigor, degrees without erudition, militarism without fortitude, progress without civilization, complication without depth, fluency without content; these are the sins to remember.

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  Civilization, Risk, Progress

  FaceBook post by Nassim Nicholas Taleb from Aug 11, 2014

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• Only the autodidacts are free.

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  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.326, Random House

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• Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love.

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  Academia, Prostitution

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.8, Random House

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• It takes extraordinary wisdom and self-control to accept that many things have a logic we do not understand that is smarter than our own.

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  Self, Logic, Accepting

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.1783, Random House

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• You have a real life if and only if you do not compete with anyone in any of your pursuits.

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  Real, Ifs And, Pursuit

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.40, Random House

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• Las tres adicciones más nocivas son la heroína, los carbohidratos y el sueldo mensual.

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  Motivational, Work, Creativity

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.39, Random House

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• An ad hominem attack against an individual, not against an idea, is highly flattering. It indicates that the person does not have anything intelligent to say about your message.

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  Intelligent, Ideas, Doe

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• Nacen y se les mete en una caja; van a casa a vivir en una caja; estudian marcando casillas; van a lo que se llama "trabajo" en una caja, donde se sientan en la caja de su cubículo; conducen hasta el supermercado en una caja para comprar comida en una caja; hablan de pensar "fuera de la caja"; y cuando mueren se les mete en una caja.

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  Divertido, Vida, Humor

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.31, Random House

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• Karl Marx, a visionary, figured out that you can control a slave much better by convincing him he is an employee.

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  Visionaries, Slave, Employee

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.1727, Random House

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• Comfort makes you weaker. We need some variability, some stressors. Not too much, but just enough.

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  Comfort, Needs, Too Much

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• Si ves fraude y no dices fraude, eres un fraude.

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  Fraud, Ifs

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.37, Random House

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• The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.

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  Pensar, Diferente, Mundo

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• The fastest way to become rich is to socialize with the poor; the fastest way to become poor is to socialize with the rich.

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  Way, Rich, Poor

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.29, Random House

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• It is a sign of weakness to avoid showing signs of weakness.

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  Debilidad

  FaceBook post by Nassim Nicholas Taleb from May 17, 2013

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• To bankrupt a fool, give him information.

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  Giving, Information, Fool

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.1705, Random House

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• Life is a tightrope between two errors: generalizing the wrong particular and particularizing the wrong general.

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  Errors, Two, Investing

  FaceBook post by Nassim Nicholas Taleb from Feb 12, 2015

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• Restaurants get you in with food to sell you liquor; religions get you in with belief to sell you rules.

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  Belief, Liquor, Restaurants

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.1722, Random House

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• Only in recent history has "working hard" signaled pride rather than shame for lack of talent, finesse and, mostly, sprezzatura .

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  Pride, Talent, Shame

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.41, Random House

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• The more data we have, the more likely we are to drown in it.

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  Datos

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2008). “Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets”, p.135, Random House

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• The weak shows his strength and hides his weaknesses; the magnificent exhibits his weaknesses like ornaments.

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  Weakness, Ornaments, Shows

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.93, Random House

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• Don't cross a river if it is four feet deep on average.

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  Media, Ríos, Pies

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility"”, p.161, Random House

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• They will envy you for your success, your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status - but rarely for your wisdom.

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  Envy, Looks, Wealth

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.14, Random House

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• The psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer has a simple heuristic. Never ask the doctor what you should do. Ask him what he would do if he were in your place. You would be surprised at the difference

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  Simple, Doctors, Differences

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2012). “Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder”, p.389, Random House

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