Taleb says that to prepare for the unpredictable, firms need to avoid debt and become robust.
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Warren Buffett often says the key to successful investing is simply to avoid mistakes, and he has become one of the richest men in the U.S. by following this strategy.
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Mr Buchanan added that it was very important to resolve "leaky homes" and become more energy efficient in order to avoid the approaching "near crisis".
But as Kissinger hints, the most reliable way to become engaged in a war is to desperately try to avoid one.
But sometimes this can become displacement activity to avoid tackling that most tricky and most vital of political tasks - earning the right to be heard.
Amanda, being raised by her Catholic grandparents after her mother abandoned her, was determined to avoid pregnancy and become the first in her family to get a college degree.
Elsewhere, though, the need to preserve social cohesion, parroted by European politicians from left and right, has become a self-defeating excuse to avoid reform.
Fighting to avoid sales taxes has become a multi-front war for the online giant.
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Professional advice may become even more important to avoid the risk of outliving assets.
Silver had previously said the women who complained sought to avoid having the issue become public and he agreed to protect their privacy, and regretted the deal.
He was forced to become the first U.S. president ever to quit office, resigning to avoid inevitable impeachment.
Afghanistan now wants to improve relations with Pakistan, but because the border has become militarised, Kabul will have its work cut out to avoid the sort of long-term skirmishes, incursions and terror attacks that are a feature of the disputed frontier that Pakistan shares with India in Kashmir.
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It has become the "fully effective backstop to avoid destructive scenarios".
Most obviously, the hiring of freelancers and consultants has become more common, allowing companies to avoid spending on employee benefits and delay hiring decisions until the economy picks up.
Although it had recently overtaken Britain to become the world's largest economy, the United States had until 1898 taken care to avoid involvement in the wider world.
The internet makes it easier for me to avoid disagreement and compromise and encourages me to become more strident and polarized in my views.
It was alleged that between 12 March and 21 May 2003, Pryce, a prominent economist, had falsely informed police she had been the driver of the car, so Huhne, who went on to become the MP for Eastleigh, in Hampshire, would avoid prosecution.
His Jewish grandfather had fled Romania in the 1920s to avoid anti-Semitic persecution and his father had become a doctor.
People living near the bridge say they are worried their roads will become rat runs and car parks as motorists try to avoid the extra fees.
What nobody can predict, though, is how a change in the law would affect those who avoid marriage precisely because they do not want to become financially intertwined.
Experts also suggested using clearly defined terms and articles in the new law to avoid ambiguity, while also noting that overregulation can become an obstacle, as witnessed in many laws around the world.
Becoming a fiduciary is not prohibited but it does impose additional requirements and care to avoid conflicts of interest and self-dealing which can become the basis for a prohibited transaction.
To avoid letting other thought bubbles dominate your decision-making, become more aware of how you react to issues.
However, Commins did explain that if a person were to avoid tick bites for some time, he or she could become less allergic to meat.
If it were to succeed in undermining this, the commission's argument about bundling would become much weaker and could more easily be answered by promises to avoid such behaviour.
There is an understandable fear that some big banks perceived to be weak won't be strengthened sufficiently, because their respective governments would want to avoid the national humiliation of admitting that these flagship institutions have become fragile.
Gamestop is determined not to go gently into the digital night, and is doing everything in their power to avoid being the next Blockbuster, as brick and mortar stores become more and more obsolete in the age of the download.
If Washington can manage to avoid interfering, the dreams within the pharmaceutical research pipeline could soon become reality.
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We must avoid the tendency that has become popular in some political circles to blame teachers and unions for the failings of our schools.
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