782 Quotes by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The tragedy of virtue is that the more obvious, boring, unoriginal, and sermonizing the proverb, the harder it is to implement.

Please, don’t drive a school bus blindfolded.

What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure.

The book is the only medium left that hasn't been corrupted by the profane.

We tend to use knowledge as therapy.

What we need to do is break the financial community's grip on society.

The characteristic feature of the loser is to bemoan, in general terms, mankind's flaws, biases, contradictions, and irrationality - without exploiting them for fun and profit

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

Alan Greenspan is unskilled; you don't take the unskilled seriously.