Nassim Nicholas Taleb - Control Quotes

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In the United States large corporations control some members of Congress. All this does is delay the corporation's funeral at our expense.

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It takes extraordinary wisdom and self-control to accept that many things have a logic we do not understand that is smarter than our own.

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Economic life should be definancialised. We should learn not to use markets as storehouses of value: they do not harbour the certainties that normal citizens require. Citizens should experience anxiety about their own businesses (which they control), not their investments (which they do not control).

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At no point in history have so many non-risk-takers, that is, those with no personal exposure, exerted so much control.

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The irony of the process of thought control: the more energy you put into trying to control your ideas and what you think about, the more your ideas end up controlling you.

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Delivering advice assumes that our cognitive apparatus rather than our emotional machinery exerts some meaningful control over our actions.

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Someone who says I am busy is either declaring incompetence (and lack of control of his life) or trying to get rid of you.

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Karl Marx, a visionary, figured out that you can control a slave much better by convincing him he is an employee.

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You get pseudo-order when you seek order; you only get a measure of order and control when you embrace randomness.

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