The difference between successful people and really successful...... Quote by "Nassim Nicholas Taleb"

The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life

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Love without sacrifice is like theft
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

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True, our knowledge does grow, but it is threatened by greater increases in confidence, which make our increase in knowledge at the same time an increase in confusion, ignorance, and conceit.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

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The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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

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Governments that try to shoot for a surplus hardly ever reach it.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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