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
callous designed people provide social turn
In social policy, when we provide a safety net, it should be designed to help people take more entrepreneurial risks, not to turn them into dependents. This doesn't mean that we should be callous to the underprivileged.
accept false knowledge limits people
The people I go after are the false experts, those who do not accept the limits of their knowledge.
people rarely
People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.
consumers instance lending mortgage needed people
The mortgage crisis is a clear instance of consumers who needed protection. There was predatory lending to people who didn't know what they were doing.
stress people work-out
People work out, they stress their body, and their body gets stronger from stress.
people events passive
I'd rather have the market tell us what - I'd rather have events precipitate events, rather than just sit there like passive people in Washington.
people quality hobbies
My major hobby is teasing people who take themselves and the quality of their knowledge too seriously and those who don't have the guts to sometimes say: I don't know....
thinking people rewards
We should reward people, not ridicule them, for thinking the impossible.
hurt people too-much
The American people will eventually get hurt by this accumulated deficit. That's the problem. We have too much deficit. We have to find a solution.
writing people matter
When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters.
strong opposites people
When you ask people, 'What's the opposite of fragile?,' they tend to say robust, resilient, adaptable, solid, strong. That's not it. The opposite of fragile is something that gains from disorder.
mistake people harm
Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.
people gullible wrong-things
Most people are sceptical about the wrong things and gullible about the wrong things.
people suffering would-be
For many people, commuting is the worst part of the day, and policies that can make commuting shorter and more convenient would be a straightforward way to reduce minor but widespread suffering.