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Success is becoming in middle ...

Success is becoming in middle adulthood what you dreamed to be in late childhood.

Nassim Taleb 338 quotes

We should reward people, not r...

We should reward people, not ridicule them, for thinking the impossible.

Nassim Taleb 338 quotes

You exist if and only if you a...

You exist if and only if you are free to do things without a visible objective, with no justification and, above all, outside the dictatorship of someone else's narrative.

Nassim Taleb 338 quotes

The twentieth century was the ...

The twentieth century was the bankruptcy of the social utopia; the twenty-first will be that of the technological one.

Nassim Taleb 338 quotes

My major hobby is teasing peop...

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....

Nassim Taleb 338 quotes

It does not matter how frequen...

It does not matter how frequently something succeeds if failure is too costly to bear.

Nassim Taleb 338 quotes

Much of the research into huma...

Much of the research into humans' risk-avoidance machinery shows that it is antiquated and unfit for the modern world; it is made to counter repeatable attacks and learn from specifics. If someone narrowly escapes being eaten by a tiger in a certain cave, then he learns to avoid that cave.

Nassim Taleb 338 quotes

At no point in history have so...

At no point in history have so many non-risk-takers, that is, those with no personal exposure, exerted so much control.

Nassim Taleb 338 quotes

In the United States large cor...

In the United States large corporations control some members of Congress. All this does is delay the corporation's funeral at our expense.

Nassim Taleb 338 quotes

An idea starts to be interesti...

An idea starts to be interesting when you get scared of taking it to its logical conclusion.

Nassim Taleb 338 quotes

To be completely cured of news...

To be completely cured of newspapers, spend a year reading the previous week's newspapers.

Nassim Taleb 338 quotes

To become a philosopher, start...

To become a philosopher, start by walking very slowly.

Nassim Taleb 338 quotes

Procrastination is the soul re...

Procrastination is the soul rebelling against entrapment.

Nassim Taleb 338 quotes

What kills me makes others str...

What kills me makes others stronger,

Nassim Taleb 338 quotes

Only the autodidacts are free,...

Only the autodidacts are free,

Nassim Taleb 338 quotes

In economic life and history m...

In economic life and history more generally, just about everything of consequence comes from black swans; ordinary events have paltry effects in the long term.

Nassim Taleb 338 quotes

You will be civilized on the d...

You will be civilized on the day you can spend a long period doing nothing, learning nothing, and improving nothing, without feeling the slightest amount of guilt.

Nassim Taleb 338 quotes

It is a sign of weakness to av...

It is a sign of weakness to avoid showing signs of weakness.

Nassim Taleb 338 quotes

The fastest way to become rich...

The fastest way to become rich is to socialize with the poor; the fastest way to become poor is to socialize with the rich.

Nassim Taleb 338 quotes

It is much harder to become in...

It is much harder to become independent if you are wealthy than to become wealthy if you are independent.

Nassim Taleb 338 quotes

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