Karan Mathur

“The curious mind embraces science; the gifted and sensitive, the arts; the practical, business; the leftover becomes an economist”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

“Corporate finance, which services the corporations and governments that borrow money, and that are known as “clients,” is, by comparison, a refined and unworldly place. Because they don’t risk money, corporate financiers are considered wimps by traders.”
― Michael Lewis, Liar's Poker

“Most info-Web-media-newspaper types have a hard time swallowing the idea that knowledge is reached (mostly) by removing junk from peoples heads”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“The simpler, the better. Complications lead to multiplicative chains of unanticipated effects.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder