Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“When downsides coexist with upsides, as they often do, people are reluctant to explore what’s bugging them, for fear of being labeled complainers.”

— Ed Catmull

Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“Fragility is defined as a susceptibility to variation.”

— Rich Jolly

“It is far easier to figure out if something is fragile than to predict the occurrence of an event that may harm it.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“The antifragile loves randomness and uncertainty, which also means—crucially—a love of errors, a certain class of errors. Antifragility has a singular property of allowing…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“In fact, we are often more interesting and sympathetic as human beings when something has gone wrong than when we are convinced of our…

— Barbara Moses

“people who are threatened with big losses and have a chance to break even will be unusually willing to take risks,”

— Richard H. Thaler

Fragility is the quality of things that are vulnerable to volatility.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“Some things benefit from shocks; they thrive and grow when exposed to volatility, randomness, disorder, and stressors and love adventure, risk, and uncertainty.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“The most critical risk of all, is not taking the risk if means be dangerous.”

— Anthony Liccione

“It is the system and its fragility, not events, that must be studied—what”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“Never underestimate a situation. Chance is random and is able to undo every preparation.”

— Elaina J. Davidson