QUOTE A DAY - January 10, 2017

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JA

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*---- Quotes For The Day ----*
It's like you're playing the piano for ten years and you still can't play chopsticks and the only thing you have to keep you going is the belief that one day you'll wake up and play like Rachmaninoff.
--Mark Spitznagel, Financial Trader

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

...once you have been a black swan - not just seen one, but lived and faced death as one - it becomes easier to imagine another on the horizon.
--Malcolm Gladwell, from the article, "Blowing Up"


**--- MYSTERY QUOTE ---**
The key is not having the ideas but having the recipe to deal with your ideas.

See at the bottom for the answer



*---- More Quotes for the Week ----*
I would not give a fig for the simplicity on this side of complexity, but I would give my life for the simplicity on the other side of complexity.
--Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

If the debtor is in difficulty, grant him time till it is easy for him to repay. But if you remit it by way of charity, that is best for you if only you knew.
(Qur'an 2:280)

Taleb buys options because he is certain that, at root, he knows nothing, or, more precisely, that other people believe they know more than they do.
--Malcolm Gladwell from the article, "Blowing Up"


MYSTERY QUOTE AND ANSWER - DID YOU GUESS CORRECTLY?

The key is not having the ideas but having the recipe to deal with your ideas.

ANSWER: Nassim Taleb

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