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We should probably stop trading derivatives, anything more complex than regular options ... I am an options trader, and I don't understand options. How do you want a regulator to understand them?

We should probably stop trading derivatives, anything more complex than regular options ... I am an options trader, and I don't understand options. How do you want a regulator to understand them?

Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Business, Want, Derivatives

I want them poor and they deserve to be poor. You can't have capitalism without punishment.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Business, Punishment, Want

Never ask a trader if he is profitable: you can easily see it in his gesture and gait.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Business, Gestures, Finance
Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2008). “Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets”, p.19, Random House

Private equity has absolutely no reason to exist. The private equity holder has all the upside and the banks all the downside.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Business, Finance, Reason

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