Best Nassim Nicholas Taleb Sayings
- Banks have never made money in the history of banking, losing the equivalent of all their past profits periodically - while bankers strike it rich. All
- 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 employers… Agents
- People are much less interested in what you are trying to show them than what you are trying to hide. Hide
- Writing is the art of repeating oneself without anyone noticing. Anyone
- Redundancy is ambiguous because it seems like a waste if nothing unusual happens. Except that something unusual happens-usually . Ambiguous
- Stoicism is about the *domestication* of emotions, not their elimination. Domestication
- Wear your best for your execution and stand dignified. Your last recourse against randomness is how you act - if you can't control outcomes, you… Act
- The rationalist imagines an imbecile-free society; the empiricist and imbecile-proof one, or even better, a rationalist-proof one. Atheist
- Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. Book
- Experience is devoid of the cherry-picking that we find in studies. Cherries
- There are secrets to our world that only practice can reveal, and no opinion or analysis will ever capture in full. Analysis
- Learn to fail with pride - and do so fast and cleanly. Maximise trial and error - by mastering the error part. Cleanly
- In science you need to understand the world; in business you need others to misunderstand it. Business
- Another definition of modernity: conversations can be more and more completely reconstructed with clips from other conversations taking place at the same time on the… Clip
- We cannot truly plan, because we do not understand the future-but this is not necessarily a bad news. We could plan while bearing in mind… Bad
- If you see fraud and do not say fraud, you are a fraud. Fraud
- Bitcoin is the beginning of something great: a currency without a government, something necessary and imperative. Beginning
- An ad hominem attack against an individual, not against an idea, is highly flattering. It indicates that the person does not have anything intelligent to… Ad
- Every social association that is not face-to-face is injurious to your health. Association
- Your reputation is harmed the most by what you say to defend it. Defend
- If you don't feel that you haven't read enough, you haven't read enough. Feel
- The opposite of manliness isn't cowardice; it's technology. Cowardice
- You get pseudo-order when you seek order; you only get a measure of order and control when you embrace randomness. Control
- We tend to treat our knowledge as personal property to be protected and defended. It is an ornament that allows us to rise in the… Allows
- It's not a good idea to take a forecast from someone wearing a tie. If possible, tease people who take themselves and their knowledge too… Forecast
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