Cases Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

It is almost always the cover-up rather than the event that causes trouble.

— Howard Baker

Inconsistency has been overpraised by people who do not expect to suffer from it.

— Mason Cooley

“The worst-case scenario always seems impossible until it actually happens.”

— R.C. Wade

Even very low-probability events can, and indeed do, occur.

— Gavin Extence

If you train worst case scenarios consistently, they will no longer be worst case scenarios

— Rener Gracie

When you can look at failure and say, 'What is the worst case scenario,' it's not as bad as it seems.

— Whitney Wolfe Herd

Terrible errors are rarely made all at once. Usually they are performed one small misstep at a time.

— A. Lee Martinez

We know that a point is always a point, and it's not the worst scenario. Sometimes it happens.

— Ruben Dias

Chance corrects us of many faults that reason would not know how to correct.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

They say the worst isn't so bad when it finally happens. But the best is.

— John Alejandro King

There is no more dangerous error than that of mistaking the consequence for the cause.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Unexpected results are the rule rather than the exception.

— Plautus