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Risk Quotes by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Many people keep deploring the low level of formal education in the United states (as defined by, say, math grades). Yet these fail to realize…
- I've debated many economists who claim to specialize in risk and probability: when one takes them slightly outside their narrow focus, but within the discipline…
- Much of the research into humans' risk-avoidance machinery shows that it is antiquated and unfit for the modern world; it is made to counter repeatable…
- At no point in history have so many non-risk-takers, that is, those with no personal exposure, exerted so much control.
- It was obvious that their profits were simply cash borrowed from destiny with some random payback time.
- 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…
- 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…
- A country's assets reside in the tinkerers, the hobbyists, and the risk-takers.
- We should ban banks from risk-taking because society is going to pay the price.
More Risk Quotes
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- In my role as Wikileaks editor, I've been involved in fighting off many legal attacks. To do that, and keep our sources… — Julian Assange
- I'm not only a lawyer, I have a post doctorate degree in federal tax law from William and Mary. I work in… — Michele Bachmann
- I just let the work speak for itself. An actor is not afraid to take risks; to put on different hats; to… — Kevin Bacon
- When I was a kid, I would do stupid things on my bike. I'd jump any ramp, I'd jump over people, I'd… — Eric Bana
- I completely take on the risk, the poker game, which being an artist means, and I'm going to try to make a… — Antonio Banderas
- The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after… — Dave Barry
- There's something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk. — Drew Barrymore
- You can only be as good as you dare to be bad. — John Barrymore
- I have a perverse attraction to risk. Not physical risk but emotional, financial risk - anything than can't kill you immediately. — Scott Adams
- The only risk of failure is promotion. — Scott Adams