Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes

Restaurants get you in with food to sell you liquor; religions get you in with belief to sell you rules.

If the professor is not capable of giving a class without preparation, don't attend.

People overvalue their knowledge and underestimate the probability of their being wrong.

In a long career, I've (almost) never seen anyone get rich while employed (via bonuses/stock options, as w/bankers, CEOs, & rich slaves), & subsequently also make money on their own, in self employment. If you can't make it on your own, it's.

If you need something urgently done, give the task to the busiest (or second busiest) person in the office.

The maximum success is reached when you are never busy.

My point: life is not about outcomes, it's how you handle adversity. Suffering doesn't prevent you from being a role model, to the contrary --depends how you handle it. Popping pills does disqualify you.

Society is being destroyed by schools and college teachers. Your children are indocrinated by people who are doing what they are doing because of their limited intellect and practical skills. And the costs TO YOU of such indocrination are ballooning.

No matter how sophisticated our choices, how good we are at dominating the odds, randomness will have the last word.

A prediction is wrong only if it costs you something. A prediction is right only if it makes you something. The rest is tawk..

Avoid calling heroes those who had no other choice.

Never take any positive advice from someone you didn't ask for advice.

I woke with this conclusion from Skin in the Game: 1) Things work thanks to a handful of people; the rest operates by situational imitation, narrow mimicry, and semi-conscious role-playing.

Your duty is to scream those truths that one should shout but that are merely whispered.

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