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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

"An idea starts to be interesting when you get scared of taking it to its logical conclusion"

Tags: Inspiration, Philosophy, Creativity, Self-discovery, Courage

"A man's maturity consists in having found again the seriousness one had as a child at play"

Tags: Personal growth, Wisdom, Perspective, Life lessons, Childhood

"Living things are long volatility, equity is short volatility"

Tags: Investment, Finance, Risk management, Financial wisdom, Equity

"Redundancy is ambiguous because it seems like a waste if nothing unusual happens. Except that something unusual happens—usually"

Tags: Uncertainty, Planning, Risk, Unexpected, Ambiguity

"The problem with information is not that it is exploited legally or illegally, but that it is no longer reliable"

Tags: Misinformation, Legal issues, Data integrity

"The fooled-by-randomness effect applies to both the forecasters and those misled by their forecasts"

Tags: Decision making, Probability, Cognitive bias, Misinterpretation, Randomness

"It is nonhabitability, more than any other factor, that determines our potential for antifragility"

Tags: Self-improvement, Resilience, Growth, Change, Potential

"The main point of financial opacity is that what is debatable remains hidden"

Tags: Accountability, Uncertainty, Clarity, Finance, Transparency

"The paradox of technology is that it makes what we know obsolete, while creating brand new uncertainties"

Tags: Innovation, Change, Knowledge, Future, Progress

"The difference between doctors and patients is that doctors are far less likely to know what they don’t know"

Tags: Self-awareness, Communication, Ignorance, Expertise, Medicine

"Stoicism is about the domestication of emotions, not their elimination"

Tags: Philosophy, Mindfulness, Personal development, Inner peace, Emotional intelligence

"You can only control your attempt at loving, not the actual behavior"

Tags: Self-improvement, Mindfulness, Love, Relationships, Emotions

"What we observe is not a pure randomness, but a mixture of order and disorder, of patterns and chaos, of regularities and irregularities"

Tags: Complexity, Chaos, Order, Randomness, Disorder

"The main difference between government bailouts and charity is the recipient’s acknowledgment and the preparatory process"

Tags: Government, Charity, Public policy, Acknowledgment, Difference

"It is remarkable that the human mind can manage to be so wrong yet so confident"

Tags: Confidence, Psychology, Human behavior, Cognition, Self-deception

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