Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Nassim Nicholas Talebis a Lebanese-American essayist, scholar, statistician, former trader, and risk analyst, whose work focuses on problems of randomness, probability, and uncertainty. His 2007 book The Black Swan was described in a review by the Sunday Times as one of the twelve most influential books since World War II...
NationalityLebanese
ProfessionScientist
CountryLebanon
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I am happy everywhere except in places where I see glitz and rich farts. I am happiest in Brooklyn, where the concentration of rich farts is minimal.
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You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.
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Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.
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Deficits are like putting dynamite in the hands of children. They can get out of control very quickly.
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Most people are sceptical about the wrong things and gullible about the wrong things.
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The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.
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Debt is a mistake between lender and borrower, and both should suffer.
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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.
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A country's assets reside in the tinkerers, the hobbyists, and the risk-takers.
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A good maxim allows you to have the last word without even starting a conversation.
Alan Greenspan is unskilled; you don't take the unskilled seriously.
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All of technology, really, is about maximizing free options.
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Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.
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Economics make homeopath and alternative healers look empirical and scientific.