Needs Quotes by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

13 Needs quotes by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb offers a sharp, risk‑aware take on Needs in thirteen brief remarks. His analytical style probes how uncertainty and scarcity shape what we deem essential.

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What we need to do is break the financial community's grip on society.

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Weak men act to satisfy their needs, stronger men their duties.

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The difference between slaves in Roman and Ottoman days and today's employees is that slaves did not need to flatter their boss.

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Comfort makes you weaker. We need some variability, some stressors. Not too much, but just enough.

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In science you need to understand the world; in business you need others to misunderstand it.

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Modernity needs to understand that being rich and becoming rich are not mathematically, personally, socially, and ethically the same thing.

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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…

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Don't ask the barber whether you need a haircut, and don't ask an academic if what he does is relevant.

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You don't become completely free by just avoiding being a slave; you also need to avoid becoming a master.

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A washing machine needs constant maintenance. It doesn't want any harm. It wants tranquility, and you need someone to - you're not…

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We have this culture of financialization. People think they need to make money with their savings rather with their own business. So…

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We know from chaos theory that even if you had a perfect model of the world, you'd need infinite precision in order…

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In politics we face the choice between warmongering, nation-state loving, big-business agents on one hand; and risk-blind, top-down, epistemic arrogant big servants of large…

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My nightmare scenario is that the government saves Citibank once again, as well as the other banks, and business resumes as usual. Then, the…

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Using, as an excuse, others' failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense.

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You know, children philosophize more than adults - and they are critical of adults.

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“Suckers think that you cure greed with money, addiction with substances, expert problems with experts, banking with bankers, economics with economists, and debt crises…

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“One needs to go out and buy a lottery ticket in order to win. Does it mean that the work involved in the trip…

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Individuals should think about the worst-case scenarios and plan for them. The world will be crazier than you think it will be. Put money…

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“If you are looking for your misplaced wallet in your living room, in a trial and error mode, you exercise rationality by not looking…

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“Most humans manage to squander their free time, as free time makes them dysfunctional, lazy, and unmotivated—the busier they get, the more active they…

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We learn the most from fools ... yet we pay them back with the worst ingratitude.

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We are victims of the post-Enlightenment view that the world functions like a sophisticated machine, to be understood like a textbook engineering problem and…

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