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"People focus on role models; it is more effective to study their mistakes"

Translations

“You want to be a philosopher, not a cheap sage”

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“What we observe is not a pure randomness, but a mixture of order and disorder, of patterns...”

“The worst taste of all is not to taste”

“I've got some good news for you: you don’t have to buy insurance”

FEATURED QUOTES

“You need to fail in order to find the right solution”

“He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else”

“A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.”

“You never fail until you stop trying.”

“The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.”

“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity”

“There’s a field somewhere beyond all doubt and wrong doing. I’ll meet you there.”

“You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards....”

“If you don't find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die”

“We all have two lives. The second one starts when we realize we only have one”