Want Quotes by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

14 Want quotes by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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If you’re curious how a statistician‑philosopher frames longing, this concise set offers a quick glimpse into his take on what drives us.

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An option hides where we don't want it to hide.

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

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“want to live happily in a world I don’t understand.”

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If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.

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Writing is sacred, other activities are profane, and I don't want them to corrupt my writing.

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You want to be yourself, idiosyncratic; the collective (school, rules, jobs, technology) wants you generic to the point of castration.

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When we want to do something while unconsciously certain to fail, we seek advice so we can blame someone else for the…

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You want failures to be small and informational. Silicon Valley does very well. It knows how to use failure as a tool…

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People focus on role models; it is more effective to find antimodels - people you don't want to resemble when you grow…

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The fragile wants tranquility, the antifragile grows from disorder, and the robust doesn't care too much.

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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…

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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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I select a very small number of things to be sceptical about, such as markets, and on these I am hypersceptic. But…

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You want to favor systems that benefit from error, disorder, variability and things like that. You want to favor these systems and…

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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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