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
real book knowledge
Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you do not know as your financial means, mortgage rates, and the currently tight real-estate market alow you to put there.
real ifs-and pursuit
You have a real life if and only if you do not compete with anyone in any of your pursuits.
realism skepticism
Realism is punishing. Probabilistic skepticism is worse.
eye reality effort
By setting oneself totally free of constraints, free of thoughts, free of this debilitating activity called work, free of efforts, elements hidden in the texture of reality start staring at you; then mysteries that you never thought existed emerge in front of your eyes.
mean harder really-mean
It's harder to say no when you really mean it.
real blow risk
Anything that provides you with very, very stable income, very stable conditions, maybe generally stable, that often, it masks real risks, risks of blow-ups.
real understanding world
Prediction, not narration, is the real test of our understanding of the world.
serendipity luck
...maximize the serendipity around you.
weakness
It is a sign of weakness to avoid showing signs of weakness.
delay large members united
In the United States, large corporations control some members of Congress. All this does is delay the corporation's funeral at our expense.
happiness humanity replace trade
Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
Capitalism has forced everyone to overoptimize in order to compete.
children
You know, children philosophize more than adults - and they are critical of adults.
There are two types of people: those who try to win and those who try to win arguments. They are never the same.