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The Black Swan asymmetry allows you to be confident about what is wrong, not about what you believe is right.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The American people will eventually get hurt by this accumulated deficit. That's the problem. We have too much deficit. We have to find a solution.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Your reputation is harmed the most by what you say to defend it.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
But the technology is only trivial retrospectively - not prospectively.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Just as in matters of seduction, people lend the most to those who need them the least.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Difficulty is what wakes up the genius
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
For Mother Nature, opinions and predictions don't count; surviving is what matters.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
An erudite is someone who displays less than he knows; a journalist or consultant the opposite.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
In other words, history teaches us to avoid the brand of naive empiricism that consists of learning from casual historical facts.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The people I go after are the false experts, those who do not accept the limits of their knowledge.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Stoicism's Emotional Robustification Success brings an asymmetry: you now have a lot more to lose than to gain. You are hence fragile.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
People do not realize that the media is paid to get your attention. For a journalist, silence rarely surpasses any word.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The sucker's trap is when you focus on what you know and what others don't know, rather than the reverse.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The problem with experts is that they do not know what they do not know
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
People work out, they stress their body, and their body gets stronger from stress.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
People focus on role models; it is more effective to find antimodels - people you don't want to resemble when you grow up
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
We tend to use knowledge as therapy.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
It was obvious that their profits were simply cash borrowed from destiny with some random payback time.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Keeping one's distance from an ignorant person is equivalent to keeping company with a wise man.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
You have family-owned businesses that have been around for 500 years. You cannot name a corporation that survives intact for even a few decades.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Being self-owned is a state of mind.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Regular minds find similarities in stories (and situations); finer minds detect differences.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
There is something in nature you don't understand, odds are it makes sense in a deeper way that is beyond your understanding.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
To understand how something works, figure out how to break it.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
A mathematician thinks in numbers, a lawyer in laws, and an idiot thinks in words.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The Arabs have an expression for trenchant prose: no skill to understand it, mastery to write it.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Never, never, never think - that's one lesson you should have in life. Never think that lack of variability is stability.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Life is a tightrope between two errors: generalizing the wrong particular and particularizing the wrong general.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Much of aging comes from a misunderstanding of the effect of comfort.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
