782 Quotes by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

If you are an Arabic-speaking, Greek-Orthodox going to a French school it makes you deeply sceptical if you have to listen to three different accounts of the Crusades - one from the Muslim side, one from the Greek side and one from the Catholic side.

We didn't get where we are thanks to the sissy notion of resilience.

Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric.

Character is proportionate to N, the number of consecutive failures without being discouraged, or equivalently, the number of successive rejections without being intimidated.

You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.

Never take advice from someone wearing a tie.

Wittgenstein's ruler: Unless you have confidence in the ruler's reliability, if you use a ruler to measure a table you may also be using the table to measure the ruler.

Anything that provides you with very, very stable income, very stable conditions, maybe generally stable, that often, it masks real risks, risks of blow-ups.

Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.