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Bailing out every bank that fails makes the system riskier, not safer.

Most people are sceptical about the wrong things and gullible about the wrong things.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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

The next time you experience a blackout, take some solace by looking at the sky. You will not recognize it.

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Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.

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Never think that lack of variability is stability. Don't confuse lack of volatility with stability, ever.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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.

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We are victims of the post-Enlightenment view that the world functions like a sophisticated machine, to be understood like a textbook engineering problem and run by wonks. In other words, like a home appliance, not like the human body.

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Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric.

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Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.

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I am happy everywhere except in places where I see glitz and rich farts. I am happiest in Brooklyn, where the concentration of rich farts is minimal.

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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.

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All of technology, really, is about maximizing free options.

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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

Economics make homeopath and alternative healers look empirical and scientific.

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If you are an Arabic-speaking, Greek-Orthodox going to a French school it makes you deeply sceptical if you have to listen to three different accounts of the Crusades - one from the Muslim side, one from the Greek side and one from the Catholic side.

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If I ask you to write down the last 4 digits of your social security number, and then take you out to lunch and ask you how many dentists there are in Manhattan, there's going to be a high correlation between those two numbers. What happens is that the number psychologically makes you feel confident.

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A good maxim allows you to have the last word without even starting a conversation.

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The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.

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I hated school because I liked to daydream and the system tried to stop me from that.

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You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.

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Capitalism has forced everyone to overoptimize in order to compete.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Bailing out every bank that fails makes the system riskier, not safer.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

We humans lack imagination, to the point of not even knowing what tomorrow's important things will look like.

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I have never had personal debt and never will.

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I'm a private intellectual, not a public one.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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.

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We have this culture of financialization. People think they need to make money with their savings rather with their own business. So you end up with dentists who are more traders than dentists. A dentist should drill teeth and use whatever he does in the stock market for entertainment.

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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