Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes

What He Likes Most About Proprietary Trading Is That It Requires Considerably Less Time Than Other High-paying Professions; In Other Words It Is Perfectly Compatible With His Non-middle-class Work Ethic. Trading Forces Someone To Think Hard; Those Who Merely Work Hard Generally Lose Their Focus And Intellectual Energy. In Addition, They End Up Drowning In Randomness; Work Ethics, Nero Believes, Draw People To Focus On Noise Rather Than The Signal

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