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What we do today has nothing to do with capitalism or socialism. It is a crony type of system that transfers money to the coffers of bureaucrats (Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes)
I drive a hybrid, moving into an electric car. I only drink tap water, never consume food that’s travelled (Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes)
If you are in banking and lending, surprise outcomes are likely to be negative for you (Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes)
It might be useful to be able to predict war. But tension does not necessarily lead to war, but often to peace and to denouement (Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes)
Never take advice from anyone in a tie. They’ll bankrupt you. Don’t ask a general for advice on war, and don’t ask a broker for advice on money (Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes)
Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric (Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes)
The track record of economists in predicting events is monstrously bad. It is beyond simplification; it is like medieval medicine (Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes)
The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in (Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes)
When I trade, I don’t have an agency problem; I have my neck on the line. When a bank or banker trades, it’s not his neck on the line (Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes)
I don’t read the papers; I stopped reading the papers. I read the papers only during periods of crisis, and I think papers are too long on a regular day and too short days when we have a crisis (Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes)
We know from chaos theory that even if you had a perfect model of the world, you’d need infinite precision in order to predict future events. With sociopolitical or economic phenomena, we don’t have anything like that (Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes)
Missing a train is only painful if you run after it! Likewise, not matching the idea of success others expect from you is only painful if that’s what you are seeking (Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes)
It has been more profitable for us to bind together in the wrong direction than to be alone in the right one (Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes)
Probability is not a mere computation of odds on the dice or more complicated variants; it is the acceptance of the lack of certainty in our knowledge and the development of methods for dealing with our ignorance (Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes)
It is my great hope someday, to see science and decision makers rediscover what the ancients have always known. Namely that our highest currency is respect (Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes)
The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free (Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes)
My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal (Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes)
True humility is when you can surprise yourself more than others; the rest is either shyness or good marketing (Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes)
The problem of knowledge is that there are many more books on birds written by ornithologists than books on birds written by birds and books on ornithologists written by birds (Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes)
The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination (Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes)
A prophet is not someone with special visions, just someone blind to most of what others see (Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes)
The classical man’s worst fear was inglorious death; the modern man’s worst fear is just death (Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes)
What organized dating sites fail to understand is that the people are far more interesting in what they don’t say about themselves (Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes)
The curious mind embraces science; the gifted and sensitive, the arts; the practical, business; the leftover becomes an economist (Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes)
The irony of the process of thought control: the more energy you put into trying to control your ideas and what you think about, the more your ideas end up controlling you (Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes)
Modernity has replaced ethics with legalese, and the law can be gamed with a good lawyer (Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes)
This is the tragedy of modernity: as with neurotically overprotective parents, those trying to help are often hurting us the most (Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes)
An erudite is someone who displays less than he knows; a journalist or consultant the opposite (Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes)
In economic life and history more generally, just about everything of consequence comes from black swans; ordinary events have paltry effects in the long term (Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes)
It was obvious that their profits were simply cash borrowed from destiny with some random payback time (Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes)