Best Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotations
- Being an entrepreneur is an existential, not just a financial thing. Entrepreneur
- You find peace by coming to terms with what you don't know. Coming
- Don't read newspapers for the news (just for the gossip and, of course, profiles of authors). The best filter to know if the news matters… Authors
- Muscles without strength, friendship without trust, opinion without risk, change without aesthetics, age without values, food without nourishment, power without fairness, facts without rigor, degrees… Aesthetics
- Aesthetics, ethics, and many good things in humans are contagious. Aesthetics
- You need a story to displace a story. Displace
- The narrative fallacy addresses our limited ability to look at sequences of facts without weaving an explanation into them, or, equivalently, forcing a logical link,… Ability
- Karl Marx, a visionary, figured out that you can control a slave much better by convincing him he is an employee. Better
- Probability is not about the odds, but about the belief in the existence of an alternative outcome, cause, or motive. Alternative
- Restaurants get you in with food to sell you liquor; religions get you in with belief to sell you rules. Belief
- The more data we have, the more likely we are to drown in it. Data
- I always remind myself that what one observes is at best a combination of variance and returns, not just returns. Always Remind
- A mistake is not something to be determined after the fact, but in the light of the information until that point. Determined
- Forecasting by bureaucrats tends to be used for anxiety relief rather than for adequate policy making. Adequate
- Ideas come and go, stories stay. Go
- I remind myself of Einstein's remark that common sense is nothing but a collection of misconceptions acquired by age 18... Acquired
- I want them poor and they deserve to be poor. You can't have capitalism without punishment. Business
- Private equity has absolutely no reason to exist. The private equity holder has all the upside and the banks all the downside. Absolutely
- We should probably stop trading derivatives, anything more complex than regular options ... I am an options trader, and I don't understand options. How do… Business
- Never ask a trader if he is profitable: you can easily see it in his gesture and gait. Ask
- The fool generalizes the particular; the nerd particularizes the general; some do both; and the wise does neither Both
- The characteristic feature of the loser is to bemoan, in general terms, mankind's flaws, biases, contradictions, and irrationality - without exploiting them for fun and… Bemoan
- For many people, commuting is the worst part of the day, and policies that can make commuting shorter and more convenient would be a straightforward… Commuting
- Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness. Clearly
- Banking is a very treacherous business because you don't realize it is risky until it is too late. It is like calm waters that deliver… Banking
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