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
portfolios opinion recommendations
Never ask anyone for their opinion, forecast, or recommendation. Just ask them what they have—or don’t have—in their portfolio.
winning trying argument
Suckers try to win arguments, nonsuckers try to win.
opposites journalist consultants
An erudite is someone who displays less than he knows; a journalist or consultant the opposite.
writing
Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope, some day, to find something to say.
may tables reliability
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.
intellectual
I'm a private intellectual, not a public one.
thinking employment slavery
Those who do not think that employment is systemic slavery are either blind or employed.
advice want blame-someone
When we want to do something while unconsciously certain to fail, we seek advice so we can blame someone else for the failure.
childhood becoming middle
Success is becoming in middle adulthood what you dreamed to be in late childhood.
goodbye ideas care
I no longer care about the financial system. I gave them my roadmap. OK? Thanks, bye. I've no idea what's going on. I'm disconnected. I'm totally disengaged.
past banking bankers
Banks have never made money in the history of banking, losing the equivalent of all their past profits periodically - while bankers strike it rich.
enough feels ifs
If you don't feel that you haven't read enough, you haven't read enough.
technology opposites cowardice
The opposite of manliness isn't cowardice; it's technology.
peace finding-peace term
You find peace by coming to terms with what you don't know.