Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes About Luck
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Hard work will get you a professorship or a BMW. You need both work and luck for a Booker, a Nobel or a private jet.
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Luck is the grand equalizer.
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Those who were unlucky in life in spite of their skills would eventually rise. The lucky fool might have benefited from some luck in life; over the longer run he would slowly converge to the state of a less-lucky idiot. Each one would revert to his long-term properties.
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Work hard, not in grunt work, but in chasing such opportunities and maximizing exposure to them. This makes living in big cities invaluable because you increase the odds of serendipitous encounters-you gain exposure to the envelope of serendipity.
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...maximize the serendipity around you.
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