782 Quotes by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The same past data can confirm a theory and its exact opposite! If you survive until tomorrow, it could mean that either a) you are more likely to be immortal or b) that you are closer to death.

In science you need to understand the world; in business you need others to misunderstand it.

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

The sucker's trap is when you focus on what you know and what others don't know, rather than the reverse.

Read books are far less valuable than unread ones.

It is much harder to become independent if you are wealthy than to become wealthy if you are independent.

Never take advice from anyone in a tie. They'll bankrupt you. Don't ask a general for advice on war, and don't ask a broker for advice on money.

You exist if and only if you are free to do things without a visible objective, with no justification and, above all, outside the dictatorship of someone else's narrative.

It takes extraordinary wisdom and self-control to accept that many things have a logic we do not understand that is smarter than our own.