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Prosperity comes from avoiding blowups, as longer life comes from avoiding death
Drawn from what Nassim Nicholas Taleb said
What Nassim Nicholas Taleb actually said
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb Former option trader and risk analyst
You can live longer if you avoid death, get better if you avoid bankruptcy, and become prosperous if you avoid blowups in the fourth quadrant.
Where this was said
↗The Fourth Quadrant: A Map of the Limits of Statistics (Edge, 2008)edge.org
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