782 Quotes by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you do not know as your financial means, mortgage rates, and the currently tight real-estate market alow you to put there.

Love without sacrifice is like theft

If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.

Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.

The problem of knowledge is that there are many more books on birds written by ornithologists than books on birds written by birds and books on ornithologists written by birds

The curious mind embraces science; the gifted and sensitive, the arts; the practical, business; the leftover becomes an economist

When people get rich, they shed their skin-in-the-game-driven experiential mechanism. They lose control of their preferences, substituting constructed preferences for their own, complicating their lives unnecessarily, triggering their own misery.

The ultimate freedom lies in not having to explain why you did something.

What I learned on my own I still remember