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

"Stoicism is about the domestication of emotions, not their elimination""You can only control your attempt at loving, not the actual behavior""What we observe is not a pure randomness, but a mixture of order and disorder, of patterns and chaos, of regularities and irregularities""The main difference between government bailouts and charity is the recipient’s acknowledgment and the preparatory process""It is remarkable that the human mind can manage to be so wrong yet so confident""The minute I was bored with a book or a subject I moved to another one, instead of giving myself headaches""A highly undiversified portfolio exposes you to much greater risk, but it also earns a much higher return""When you depart from standard probability, you completely lose track of its limits""True humility is when you can surprise yourself more than others""You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept""The problem with experts is that they do not know what they do not know""Randomness is indistinguishable from complicated, undirected effort""I've got some good news for you: you don’t have to buy insurance""What you know is a function of what you have been exposed to""The general principle is that the solution does not have to be in the form of what you see""Some events, you don't know how they are going to end""Wealth does not count, attention counts""People don't know about risk, uncertainty, and surety""You will get the best prediction of the future from the realization that the predictive power of the past has never been good at making future predictions""The more egregious the failure, the more important it is of first-order importance, not second-order importance"

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