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Famous Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes
“There are systems that use failure as fuel for improvement, where the cost of failure is small.”
“The bonus for bankers fragilizes the system. Someone has the upside at the expense of others.”
“Comfort makes you weaker. We need some variability, some stressors. Not too much, but just enough.”
Source: The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility
“Prediction, not narration, is the real test of our understanding of the world.”
Source: The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility
“What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure.”
Source: Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile
Source: Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile
Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
“If my detractors knew me better they would hate me even more.”
Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
“A verbal threat is the most authentic certificate of impotence.”
Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
Source: Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile
Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
“Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness.”
“You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.”
Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms