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Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes

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

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: lebanese
Birth: 1960

Topics

Good You Conversation Starting Last

If I do commit myself to something, I will commit myself 100 percent.

Myself Will Something Commit Percent

When you reach a certain age in life, time becomes more important than money, and I think that happens in your 50s.

Life Age Time Money Think Reach

Do we settle on a regional team because we can go to its ballpark and see its games on television? Or do we choose a team as our favorite because it has an especially appealing player, a Barry Bonds or an Ichiro?

Team Choose Television Go Settle

If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a writer.

Love Reading Think Find Writer Read

Practically every technology that is ever invented is touted as being the new savior, the thing that will bring peace and goodwill to the earth, but immediately it falls into other hands who see it as the opportunity to promote the very opposite.

Technology Opportunity Peace Hands

I've played for a lot of tough crowds.

Tough Played Crowds Lot

I like fat people more then I like thin people, things are always a lot more funnier when they happen to fat people.

People Fat More Always Happen Like

And I've always loved commercials. I like working out how to organically weave a brand's message into the writing process. It's like an improv show, where comics ask the audience to throw out a word and a skit is built around it.

Writing Brand Process Loved Ask Out

The north-south line of 'the mountains,' meaning the Cascade Range, forty miles east of Seattle, is a rigid political frontier.

Mountains Political Meaning Line

I was never supposed to be a businessman. I was going to change the world. I was going to go back to Latin America and work on agrarian reform and equalize the differences between rich and poor.

Work Change Change The World World

Poverty is not socialism. To be rich is glorious.

Socialism Rich Poverty Glorious

If a man is not faithful to his own individuality, he cannot be loyal to anything.

Man Individuality Faithful Anything

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