Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quote

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"La robustesse d'une idée est testée par l'échec, pas par le succès"

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“A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding. A failure is not an error”

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“Some events, you don't know how they are going to end”

“Living things are long volatility, equity is short volatility”

“An idea starts to be interesting when you get scared of taking it to its logical conclusion”

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