Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes

Biography: Nassim Nicholas Taleb is known for his work on risk analysis, probabil... more Biography: Nassim Nicholas Taleb is known for his work on risk analysis, probability, and uncertainty, particularly through his book "The Black Swan." A former trader and academic, Taleb advocates for resilience in complex systems and is a critic of predictive models. His ideas influence economics, finance, and decision-making. less

"We don’t need more information, we need less""The robustness of an idea is tested by failure, not success""True success is exiting some very chancy risks""Never ask a barber if you need a haircut""Information wants to be reduced. Lucky for us, it perishes""Courage is the only virtue you can't fake""Never ask anyone for their opinion, forecast, or recommendation. Just ask them what they have—or don’t have—in their portfolio""There are two types of people in the world: those who try to win and those who try to win arguments. They are never the same""The three most damaging words in the history of mankind are 'a great idea'""The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination""An idea starts to be interesting when you get scared of taking it to its logical conclusion""A man's maturity consists in having found again the seriousness one had as a child at play""Living things are long volatility, equity is short volatility""Redundancy is ambiguous because it seems like a waste if nothing unusual happens. Except that something unusual happens—usually""The problem with information is not that it is exploited legally or illegally, but that it is no longer reliable""The fooled-by-randomness effect applies to both the forecasters and those misled by their forecasts""It is nonhabitability, more than any other factor, that determines our potential for antifragility""The main point of financial opacity is that what is debatable remains hidden""The paradox of technology is that it makes what we know obsolete, while creating brand new uncertainties""The difference between doctors and patients is that doctors are far less likely to know what they don’t know"

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