"What we need to do is break the……" — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

"What we need to do is break the financial community's grip on society."

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219 Quotes by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Nassim Nicholas Taleb has 219 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

I no longer care about the financial system. I gave them my roadmap. OK? Thanks, bye. I've no idea what's…
Hard work will get you a professorship or a BMW. You need both work and luck for a Booker, a…
Work hard, not in grunt work, but in chasing such opportunities and maximizing exposure to them. This makes living in…
...maximize the serendipity around you.
Answer e-mails from junior people before more senior ones. Junior people have further to go and tend to remember who…
Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better.
He who has never sinned is less reliable than he who has only sinned once.
Modernity has replaced ethics with legalese, and the law can be gamed with a good lawyer.
Let me be more aggressive: we are largely better at doing than we are at thinking, thanks to antifragility. I’d…
This is the tragedy of modernity: as with neurotically overprotective parents, those trying to help are often hurting us the…
Many people keep deploring the low level of formal education in the United states (as defined by, say, math grades).…
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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Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where… — Bill Ayers
Women say that my election represents a cultural break with the past - a past of sexism, of misogyny. — Michelle Bachelet
As I was coming up on the stage, there was one source that could make or break you, the New… — Kevin Bacon
Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those… — Russell Baker
Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that… — Russell Baker
Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy. — Drew Barrymore
If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form… — Jean Baudrillard
Barack Obama isn't the first politician to break a promise, torture the truth or outright lie to the American people.… — Bob Beauprez
Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness… — Joseph Addison
God loves us; the devil hates us. God wants us to have a fulness of joy as He has. The… — Ezra Taft Benson

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