Nassim Nicholas Taleb Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old Nassim Nicholas Taleb quotes, Nassim Nicholas Taleb sayings, and Nassim Nicholas Taleb proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.'

Procrastination is the soul rebelling against entrapment. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Economics make homeopath and alternative healers look empirical and scientific. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Bitcoin is the beginning of something great: a currency without a government, something necessary and imperative. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
An option hides where we don't want it to hide. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
You want failures to be small and informational. Silicon Valley does very well. It knows how to use failure as a tool for improvement. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The next time you experience a blackout, take some solace by looking at the sky. You will not recognize it. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Switzerland is the perfect place where you have volatility at a municipal level that nothing up top - small units competing with each other. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
If you roll dice, you know that the odds are one in six that the dice will come up on a particular side. So you can calculate the risk. But, in the stock market, such computations are bull - you don't even know how many sides the dice have! Nassim Nicholas Taleb
In poor countries, officials receive explicit bribes; in D.C. they get the sophisticated, implicit, unspoken promise to work for large corporations. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The excess energy released from overreaction to setbacks is what innovates! Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Light control works; close control leads to overreaction, sometimes causing the machinery to break into pieces. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The track record of economists in predicting events is monstrously bad. It is beyond simplification it is like medieval medicine. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Comfort makes you weaker. We need some variability, some stressors. Not too much, but just enough. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Never think that lack of variability is stability. Don't confuse lack of volatility with stability, ever. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Charm is the ability to insult people without offending them, nerdiness the reverse. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
You need to keep reminding yourself of the obvious. Charm lies in the unsaid, the unwritten, and the undisplayed. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
For life to be really fun, what you fear should line up with what you desire. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
To bankrupt a fool, give him information. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The fragile wants tranquility, the antifragile grows from disorder, and the robust doesn't care too much. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination Nassim Nicholas Taleb
What I learned on my own I still remember. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
.. it is about the distortions of symmetry and reciprocity in life: if you have the rewards, you must also get some of the risks— not let others pay the price of your mistakes. If you inflict risk onto others and they are harmed, you need to pay some price for it. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness. Nassim Nicholas Taleb