Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes - Page 3

• La idea central de El Cisne Negro es que: los acontecimientos raros no pueden estimarse a partir de la observación empírica, puesto que son raros.

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  Swans, Ideas, Rare Events

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• Recibirás la mayor atención de quienes te odian. Ningún amigo, ningún admirador ni ninguna pareja te halagará con tanta curiosidad.

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  Hate, Curiosity, No Friends

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.103, Random House

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• Anything that provides you with very, very stable income, very stable conditions, maybe generally stable, that often, it masks real risks, risks of blow-ups.

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  Real, Blow, Risk

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• Los médicos suelen confundir la ausencia de pruebas con la evidencia de abuso.

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  Doctors, Medicine, Mixing

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• To succeed in life requires a total inability to do anything that makes you uncomfortable when you look at yourself in the mirror.

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  Mirrors, Inability, Looks

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.1728, Random House

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• Those who do not think that employment is systemic slavery are either blind or employed.

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  Thinking, Employment, Slavery

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.33, Random House

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• Prediction, not narration, is the real test of our understanding of the world.

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  Real, Understanding, World

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility"”, p.133, Random House

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• People focus on role models; it is more effective to find antimodels - people you don't want to resemble when you grow up

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  Growing Up, Good Life, People

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.1730, Random House

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• Love without sacrifice is like theft

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  True Love, Sacrifice, Marriage Advice

  FaceBook post by Nassim Nicholas Taleb from Aug 21, 2010

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• The traits I respect are erudition and the courage to stand up when half-men are afraid for their reputation. Any idiot can be intelligent.

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  Intelligent, Men, Half

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

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• Nunca, nunca, nunca pienses - esa es una lección que debes tener en la vida. Nunca pienses que la falta de variabilidad es estabilidad.

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  Thinking, Should Have, Lessons

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• The number of managers with great track records in a given market depends far more on the number of people who started in the investment business (in place of going to dental school), rather than on their ability to produce profits.

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  School, Numbers, Track

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2008). “Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets”, p.154, Random House

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• When you develop your opinions on the basis of weak evidence, you will have difficulty interpreting subsequent information that contradicts these opinions, even if this new information is obviously more accurate.

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  Information, Opinion, Weak

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility"”, p.144, Random House

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• ...maximize the serendipity around you.

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  Serendipity, Luck

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility"”, p.204, Random House

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• Las ideas van y vienen, las historias permanecen.

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  Ideas, Stories, Black Swan

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility"”, p.31, Random House

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• We know from chaos theory that even if you had a perfect model of the world, you'd need infinite precision in order to predict future events. With sociopolitical or economic phenomena, we don't have anything like that.

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  Order, Perfect, Events

  "Always expect the unexpected". Interview with James Surowiecki, www.wired.com. April 1, 2007.

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• The curious mind embraces science; the gifted and sensitive, the arts; the practical, business; the leftover becomes an economist

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  Art, Mind, Sensitive

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.90, Penguin UK

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• Debt is a mistake between lender and borrower, and both should suffer.

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  Mistake, Suffering, Debt

  "We still have the same disease". Interview with Margaret Wente, www.theglobeandmail.com. September 13, 2009.

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• In science you need to understand the world; in business you need others to misunderstand it.

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  Needs, World

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.9, Random House

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• There are systems that use failure as fuel for improvement, where the cost of failure is small.

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  Cost, Use, Fuel

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• Go to parties. You can't even start to know what you may find on the envelope of serendipity. If you suffer from agoraphobia, send colleagues.

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  Party, Serendipity, Suffering

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• The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free

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  Technology, Differences, Slavery

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

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• For the robust, an error is information.

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  Errors, Information, Robust

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.71, Penguin UK

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• If you don't feel that you haven't read enough, you haven't read enough.

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  Enough, Feels, Havens

  FaceBook post by Nassim Nicholas Taleb from Jun 06, 2014

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• At no point in history have so many non-risk-takers, that is, those with no personal exposure, exerted so much control.

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  Risk, Exposure, No Point

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2012). “Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder”, p.6, Random House

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