"Being an entrepreneur is an existential, not just……" — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
"Being an entrepreneur is an existential, not just a financial thing."
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219 Quotes by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Nassim Nicholas Taleb has 219 quotes on this site.
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I no longer care about the financial system. I gave them my roadmap. OK? Thanks, bye. I've no idea what's…
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Hard work will get you a professorship or a BMW. You need both work and luck for a Booker, a…
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Work hard, not in grunt work, but in chasing such opportunities and maximizing exposure to them. This makes living in…
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...maximize the serendipity around you.
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Answer e-mails from junior people before more senior ones. Junior people have further to go and tend to remember who…
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Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better.
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He who has never sinned is less reliable than he who has only sinned once.
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Modernity has replaced ethics with legalese, and the law can be gamed with a good lawyer.
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Let me be more aggressive: we are largely better at doing than we are at thinking, thanks to antifragility. I’d…
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This is the tragedy of modernity: as with neurotically overprotective parents, those trying to help are often hurting us the…
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Many people keep deploring the low level of formal education in the United states (as defined by, say, math grades).…
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But they never notice the following inconsistency: this so-called worst-case event, when it happened, exceeded the worst case at the…
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All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
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It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.
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Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is…
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I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it's not just about the business.…
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A company shouldn't get addicted to being shiny, because shiny doesn't last.
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Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing.
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I know how to make decisions and stand up to the criticism every day.
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