Average Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb Download Open image “Maximum of an average is necessarily less volatile than the average maximum” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Average Maximum
If we observe the performance of only those funds that remain active, we will tend to find that the average performance of the surviving… — Robert Haugen Copy Share Image
“Determine the result you desire..law of averages does not know the objective untill the decision is made. Once a decision is made, the law… — Earl Prevette Copy Share Image
There are plenty of maxims in the world; all that remains is to apply them. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“The maxim, as has been already said, is a general statement, and people love to hear stated in general terms what they already believe… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Less volatile stocks tend to have negative abnormal profits; more volatile stocks tend to have positive abnormal profits. — Robert Haugen Copy Share Image
The entropy of an isolated system not in equilibrium will tend to increase over time, approaching a maximum value at equilibrium. — Rudolf Clausius Copy Share Image
It is one of the great paradoxes of the stock market that what seems too high usually goes higher and what seems too low… — William O'Neil 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
I genuinely did not expect more than half our nation to choose to walk away from our long-term allies into the arms of our… — Brian Reade Copy Share Image
There were times last year when people looked at the scoreboard and thought my batting average was the temperature. — Buck Martinez Copy Share Image
The average condition of the people improving or deteriorating, depends upon whether population is advancing faster than improvement, or improvement than population. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
In comparative terms, there's no poverty in America by a long shot. Heritage Foundation political scientist Robert Rector has worked up figures showing that… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The average well-being of our societies is not dependent any longer on national income and economic growth. ... But the differences between us and… — Richard G. Wilkinson Copy Share Image
I really focus more to hit for average, just try to put the ball in play as much as I can. — Juan Soto Copy Share Image
You give me enough shots, I'll average 20. You give me a particular system where I stick close to the basket, I'll average 10 rebounds. — Chris Bosh Copy Share Image
The average ordinary citizen can do a lot of different things when it comes to the climate crisis. — Lawrence Bender Copy Share Image
The average American expends more time becoming informed about choosing a car than choosing a candidate. But, then, the consequences of the former choice… — George Will Copy Share Image
My phone rings, they call me up and say, 'Chael, your testosterone level is too high.' I say, 'Well, how high was it?' They… — Chael Sonnen Copy Share Image
In one century, we've added 28 years to our average life span - a change so rapid that our brains couldn't possibly have evolved… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
So-called Western Civilization, as practised in half of Europe, some of Asia and a few parts of North America, is better than anything else… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image