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Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a renowned author, scholar, and thinker whose unique perspective and profound insights have had a wide-reaching impact in fields such as finance, statistics, and philosophy. He is best known for his books 'The Black Swan' and 'Fooled by Randomness', which have explored the nature of uncertainty, risk, and probability theory.

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Famous Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes

“You want to be yourself, idiosyncratic; the collective (school, rules, jobs, technology) wants you generic to the point of castration.”

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Book:Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile

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“An option hides where we don't want it to hide.”

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“A washing machine needs constant maintenance. It doesn't want any harm. It wants tranquility, and you need someone to - you're not going to harm it by continuously monitoring it and adjusting it.”

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“You want failures to be small and informational. Silicon Valley does very well. It knows how to use failure as a tool for improvement.”

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“You want to favor systems that benefit from error, disorder, variability and things like that. You want to favor these systems and unfortunately, when - there's something I call the Soviet Illusion. The more the government becomes intrusive, the more things have to follow a script, and it can't handle this kind of system.”

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“The fragile wants tranquility, the antifragile grows from disorder, and the robust doesn't care too much.”

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Book:Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

“People focus on role models; it is more effective to find antimodels - people you don't want to resemble when you grow up”

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“If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.”

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“I want to live happily in a world I don’t understand.”

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“When we want to do something while unconsciously certain to fail, we seek advice so we can blame someone else for the failure.”

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“I want them poor and they deserve to be poor. You can't have capitalism without punishment.”

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“We should probably stop trading derivatives, anything more complex than regular options ... I am an options trader, and I don't understand options. How do you want a regulator to understand them?”

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Author:Nassim Nicholas Taleb