Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes

Never hire an A student unless it is to take exams.

Education makes the wise slightly wiser, but it makes the fool vastly more dangerous.

Socrates used to walk around the house delaying his meal as he held that hunger was the best seasoning. () Fasting can turn any meal into a Michelin 3 star.

Universities have been progressing from providing scholarship for a small fee into selling degrees at a large cost.

There are no successful and unsuccessful people. A few ones are just trying to be someone else.

Keeping ones distance from an ignorant person is equivalent to keeping company with a wise man.

If you're busy at work odds are you will eventually be replaced by a robot.

Heroes are heroes because they are heroic in behavior, not because they won or lost.

Do not socialize with people much richer than you; but if you do, do it in your own territory (restaurants you can afford, wine, etc.)

What works on a small scale almost NEVER expands to large scale.

Mathematicians think in proofs, lawyers in constructs, logicians in operators, dancers in movement, artists in impressions, and idiots in labels.

Years ago, I noticed one thing about economics, and that is that economists didn't get anything right.

Stoicism is about the *domestication* of emotions, not their elimination.

"Start by being warm, pleasant, & generous w/every person you meet; but if someone tries to exercise power over you, exercise power over him; & if he messes w/you, remember to keep messing w/him long after he has forgotten about it". Silver Rule of Fat Tony in

Somehow it is only when you dont care about your reputation that you tend to have a good one.