Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Nassim Nicholas Talebis a Lebanese-American essayist, scholar, statistician, former trader, and risk analyst, whose work focuses on problems of randomness, probability, and uncertainty. His 2007 book The Black Swan was described in a review by the Sunday Times as one of the twelve most influential books since World War II...
NationalityLebanese
ProfessionScientist
CountryLebanon
Nassim Nicholas Taleb quotes about
knowledge ideas ties
It's not a good idea to take a forecast from someone wearing a tie. If possible, tease people who take themselves and their knowledge too seriously.
faces association social
Every social association that is not face-to-face is injurious to your health.
thinking volatility stability
Never think that lack of variability is stability. Don't confuse lack of volatility with stability, ever.
what-matters people serendipity
If something is going on, I hear about it. I like to talk to people, I socialise. Television is a waste of time. Human contact is what matters.
risk surface courses
A system, artificially stabilized, and of course you have hidden risks under the surface, and you don't know where the risks are.
agency lines necks
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.
too-much comfort needs
Comfort makes you weaker. We need some variability, some stressors. Not too much, but just enough.
resilience thanks sissy
We didn't get where we are thanks to the sissy notion of resilience.
wise stupid political
The best test of whether someone is extremely stupid (or extremely wise) is whether financial and political news makes sense to him.
ornaments weakness shows
The weak shows his strength and hides his weaknesses; the magnificent exhibits his weaknesses like ornaments.
philosophical leisure insight
For the classics philosophical insight was the product of a life of leisure; for me a life of leisure is the product of philosophical insight.
effort information doe
Information is antifragile; it feeds more on attempts to harm it than it does on efforts to promote it.
irrelevant
Intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant.
self logic accepting
It takes extraordinary wisdom and self-control to accept that many things have a logic we do not understand that is smarter than our own.