782 Quotes by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Life is a tightrope between two errors: generalizing the wrong particular and particularizing the wrong general.

Capitalism has forced everyone to overoptimize in order to compete.

Being an entrepreneur is an existential, not just a financial thing.

Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.

Bitcoin is the beginning of something great: a currency without a government, something necessary and imperative.

He who has never sinned is less reliable than he who has only sinned once. And someone who has made plenty of errors-though never the same error more than once-is more reliable than someone who has never made any.

Umberto Eco is the owner of a large personal library of almost 30,000 books that he has not read. [To him] read books are far less valuable than unread ones.

We cannot truly plan, because we do not understand the future-but this is not necessarily a bad news. We could plan while bearing in mind such limitations. It just takes guts.

What we do today has nothing to do with capitalism or socialism. It is a crony type of system that transfers money to the coffers of bureaucrats.