Ever Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb Download Open image “Governments that try to shoot for a surplus hardly ever reach it.” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ever Governments Hardly Politics Reach Shoot Surplus Try
Governments have budgets but no money, companies have money but no budgets. — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
The government can afford to supply the military, but can't feed the poor people. — Ace Hood Copy Share Image
Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Throughout history governments have been chronically short of revenue. The reason should be clear: unlike you and me, governments do not produce useful goods… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Because of the oil-and-water relationship governments have cultivated between ethics and political economy, speaking in plain terms - spelling it out as it is… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
The government doesn't have any money. The only power it has is to take from some and give to others. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Countries that intervene militarily rarely do so out of pure altruism. — Samantha Power Copy Share Image
It is sad indeed that you have large funds available for wasting on purchase of weapons, but none for spending on public welfare schemes. — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
Wittgenstein's ruler: Unless you have confidence in the ruler's reliability, if you use a ruler to measure a table you may also be using… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
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… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
My nightmare scenario is that the government saves Citibank once again, as well as the other banks, and business resumes as usual. Then, the… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Using, as an excuse, others' failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
You know, children philosophize more than adults - and they are critical of adults. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“Suckers think that you cure greed with money, addiction with substances, expert problems with experts, banking with bankers, economics with economists, and debt crises… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“One needs to go out and buy a lottery ticket in order to win. Does it mean that the work involved in the trip… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Individuals should think about the worst-case scenarios and plan for them. The world will be crazier than you think it will be. Put money… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“If you are looking for your misplaced wallet in your living room, in a trial and error mode, you exercise rationality by not looking… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“Most humans manage to squander their free time, as free time makes them dysfunctional, lazy, and unmotivated—the busier they get, the more active they… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
We learn the most from fools ... yet we pay them back with the worst ingratitude. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
When I was trying to come up with a stage name, I thought 'Lord' was super rad, but really masculine - ever since I… — Lorde Copy Share Image
I once told someone I could act. They totally bought it. I've been getting away with it ever since. — Akshay Kumar Copy Share Image
I am tired of our characters being so incomplete. When do we ever save the day in a film? When does a Latino actor… — Esai Morales Copy Share Image
I want to make myself and the crowd happy by way of something different, and that makes things difficult. I'm never playing something that… — Tiesto Copy Share Image
The resources of our continent attract, more than ever, the interests of rich countries. — Omar Bongo Copy Share Image
I say this about everything: when I was on 'Neighbours,' I said, 'These are the best years of my life!' When I was filming… — Margot Robbie Copy Share Image
I don't think you should ever say, 'This is the last time'. Music isn't like that. You'll be sitting there not wishing to get… — Roger Daltrey Copy Share Image
Ninety-eight percent of the things that come out of my mouth are intended to be harmless or even charming. They're not ever intended to… — Megan Fox Copy Share Image
My mother worked in the white world, but I lived almost exclusively in a black world. I don't think I had ever seen a… — Edward P. Jones Copy Share Image
I grew up in a blue-collar neighborhood and was raised by a man who did not emote, ever... I always cry at movies, and… — Matthew Quick Copy Share Image
Close contact between science and the practice of collective farms and State farms creates inexhaustible opportunities for the development of theoretical knowledge, enabling us… — Trofim Lysenko Copy Share Image
