Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 11
Author
Economist
Essayist
Mathematician
Philosopher
Statistician
University Teacher
Writer
Nassim Nicholas Najib Taleb
Nassim Taleb
Grandparent
Grandchildren
Debt
Bear
Bears
Debts
Grandparents
More quotes by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Please, don’t drive a school bus blindfolded.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Private equity has absolutely no reason to exist. The private equity holder has all the upside and the banks all the downside.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The characteristic feature of the loser is to bemoan, in general terms, mankind's flaws, biases, contradictions, and irrationality - without exploiting them for fun and profit
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Another definition of modernity: conversations can be more and more completely reconstructed with clips from other conversations taking place at the same time on the planet.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Realism is punishing. Probabilistic skepticism is worse.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
A man without a heroic bent starts dying at the age of thirty.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Don't ask the barber whether you need a haircut, and don't ask an academic if what he does is relevant.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
It is a sign of weakness to avoid showing signs of weakness.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
To succeed in life requires a total inability to do anything that makes you uncomfortable when you look at yourself in the mirror.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
It was obvious that their profits were simply cash borrowed from destiny with some random payback time.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
There is a certain category of fool-the overeducated, the academic, the journalist, the newspaper reader, the mechanistic scientist, the pseudo-empiricist, those endowed with what I call epistemic arrogance, this wonderful ability to discount what they did not see, the unobserved.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
When I trade, I don't have an agency problem I have my neck on the line. When a bank or banker trades, it's not his neck on the line.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
A prophet is not someone with special visions, just someone blind to most of what others see
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Few understand that procrastination is our natural defense, letting things take care of themselves and exercise their antifragility it results from some ecological or naturalistic wisdom, and is not always bad - at an existential level, it is my body rebelling against its entrapment. It is my soul fighting the Procrustean bed of modernity.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
You get pseudo-order when you seek order you only get a measure of order and control when you embrace randomness.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
To bankrupt a fool, give him information.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Education makes the wise slightly wiser, but it makes the fool vastly more dangerous.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
