Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes

Progress is almost never linear. Ups and downs and bursts.

The rule is: Use "BUT" as a logical operator, not to seek protection from consequences of your opinion.

Never take an advice from a salesman, or any advice that benefits the advice giver.

Modernity has replaced ethics with legalese, and the law can be gamed with a good lawyer.

It’s harder to say no when you really mean it.

Those who aren't in it for the money won't tell you that they aren't in it for the money.

people often confuse complex ideas that cannot be simplified into a media-friendly statement as symptomatic of a confused mind.

Accept the rationality of time, never its fairness and morality.

Yo, if this piano's the cake then my words are the candles
Light it up, make a wish, and them angels will grant you

The problem with academics is that they really think that nonacademics find them more intelligent than themselves.

The antifragility of the higher level may require the fragility—and sacrifice—of the lower one.

This, perhaps is true self-confidence: the ability to look at the world without the need to find signs that stroke one's ego.

Complaints don't deliver complaints, they mostly reveal your weakness.

The difference between banks and the Mafia: banks have better legal-regulatory expertise, but the Mafia understands public opinion.

You can define a free person precisely as someone whose fate is not centrally or directly dependent on peer assessment.