“The most important thing in your life is to be happy, to be patient and to learn to love life and do everything you can.” Quote by Gilles Marini
“You want failures to be small and informational. Silicon Valley does very well. It knows how to use failure as a tool for improvement.” KnowsWantWellsDoeUseKnow HowToolsImprovementValleysSiliconSilicon Valley Author:Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“We all make mistakes, probably the man most often.” MenMistakeHe ManMaking MistakesWe All Make Mistakes Author:Gilles Marini
“Make sure that you are in a situation where the constant mistakes are small and can be used for something.” UsedMistakeSituationConstant Author:Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“As countries get rich they start increasing education and the very educated people tend to not like trial and error, because they think they're obligated to use the body of knowledge they have.” PeopleThinkingCountryUseBodyRichErrorsTrialsEducatedGet RichTrial And Error Author:Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“Political life loves some volatility.” PoliticalLove LifePolitical LifeVolatility Author: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.” PerfectLevelsUnitsCompetingSwitzerlandVolatility Author:Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“A system, artificially stabilized, and of course you have hidden risks under the surface, and you don't know where the risks are.” KnowsCoursesRiskSurface Author:Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“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.” WantKindGovernmentBenefitsIllusionErrorsScriptsFavorsHandleDisorderSovietVariability Author:Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“Bankers, they're not harmed by their mistakes. They benefit when things go right, and the society pays the price.” PayMistakeBenefitsBankersPay The Price Author:Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“The bonus for bankers fragilizes the system. Someone has the upside at the expense of others.” ExpensesBankersBonus Author:Nassim Nicholas Taleb