Quotes | Fat Tony's

"We are quick to forget that just being alive is an extraordinary piece of good luck, a remote event, a chance occurrence of monstrous proportions."

- Nassim Taleb

"Bureaucracy is a construction by which a person is conveniently separated from the consequences of his or her actions."

- Nassim Taleb

"A good book gets better at the second reading. A great book at the third. Any book not worth rereading isn't worth reading."

- Nassim Taleb

"My best definition of a nerd: someone who asks you to explain an aphorism"

- Nassim Taleb

*"A Stoic is a Buddhist with attitude, one who says “f*** you” to fate."*

- Nassim Taleb

"Mild success can be explainable by skills and labor. Wild success is attributable to variance."

- Nassim Taleb

"How much you truly “believe” in something can be manifested only through what you are willing to risk for it."

- Nassim Taleb

"Never trust the words of a man who is not free."

- Nassim Taleb

"Scars signal skin in the game."

- Nassim Taleb

"Wisdom in the young is as unattractive as frivolity in the elderly."

- Nassim Taleb

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