My grandfather, a politician, never failed an election. He had a way of talking to pple as if they had been friends for a long time.
I learned from h… - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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My grandfather, a politician, never failed an election. He had a way of talking to pple as if they had been friends for a long time. I learned from him to do that systematically, particularly w/disfavored communities. But I've never repressed my urge to irritate arrogant fucks.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Nassim Nicholas Taleb (born 1 January 1960 in Amioun, Lebanon) is an essayist, epistemologist, researcher, and former practitioner of mathematical finance.
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Procrastination is the soul rebelling against entrapment.
Bullish or bearish are terms used by people who do not engage in practicing uncertainty, like the television commentators, or those who have no experience in handling risk. Alas, investors and businesses are not paid in probabilities; they are paid in dollars. Accordingly, it is not how likely an event is to happen that matters, it is how much is made when it happens that should be the consideration.
Elephant. My favorite animal: takes no crap, gives no crap, harms no-one but when one tries to harm it, never forgets.
