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Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: lebanese
Birth: 1960

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Work Day Thinking Every Day Wall

If there's Cold War, no 'Star Wars' in China.

War Cold Cold War China Star Wars

One cannot see any world leader who has got a grip on the financial markets these days. They're too big, too fast. I think that's quite scary.

Leader World Think Financial Fast

In the wrestling world, you had WWE, WCW, and smaller promotions that were like the independents. I look at it as craft beer being the independent beer makers. It's the indie scene.

Stone Cold Steve Austin

Beer World You Look Independent WWE

The novelist's obligation to remake the sensuous texture of a vanished world is also the historian's. The strongest fiction writers often do deep research to make the thought and utterances of lost time credible.

Time Research World Deep Thought

Somebody said I sound like an old lady, and I was really insulted by that. I'm trying to sound like Skip James and Smokey Robinson and Marvin Gaye.

Lady Trying Said Sound Old Old Lady

Dictators are interesting, no?

Interesting Dictators

For me, football is just a game, not a drama.

Football Me Game Drama Just

Like Afghanistan before it, Iraq is only one theater in a regional war. We were attacked by a network of terrorist organizations supported by several countries, of whom the most important were Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Saudi Arabia.

War Important Afghanistan Only Like

The 'Axis of Evil' was - and is - very real, as the tyrants of Iran, Iraq, and North Korea knew full well.

Evil Real Tyrants Well Knew Full

Society cannot exist without law. Law is the bond of society: that which makes it, that which preserves it and keeps it together. It is, in fact, the essence of civil society.

Joseph P. Bradley

Together Law Society Bond Without

I watched the guy that hits a home run, and he comes across the plate and he points skyward, like thanking for the help from the Almighty to hit the home run. And as he does that, I say to myself, 'God screwed the pitcher.' And I don't know how else you look at it.

Home God Myself Help You Look

At the top of my career, I wasn't at the top of my game.

Game Career Top

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