Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Alan Greenspan is unskilled you don't take the unskilled seriously.
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
Seriously
Take
Unskilled
Alan
More quotes by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Prediction, not narration, is the real test of our understanding of the world.
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
Paul Krugman is a danger to society!
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
You have a real life if and only if you do not compete with anyone in any of your pursuits.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Debt is a mistake between lender and borrower, and both should suffer.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Luck is the grand equalizer.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Globalization has created this interlocking fragility. At no time in the history of the universe has the cancellation of a Christmas order in New York meant layoffs in China.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
What we do today has nothing to do with capitalism or socialism. It is a crony type of system that transfers money to the coffers of bureaucrats.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
It is my great hope someday, to see science and decision makers rediscover what the ancients have always known. Namely that our highest currency is respect.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I always remind myself that what one observes is at best a combination of variance and returns, not just returns.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
A verbal threat is the most authentic certificate of impotence.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
A washing machine needs constant maintenance. It doesn't want any harm. It wants tranquility, and you need someone to - you're not going to harm it by continuously monitoring it and adjusting it.
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
Success is becoming in middle adulthood what you dreamed to be in late childhood.
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
But they never notice the following inconsistency: this so-called worst-case event, when it happened, exceeded the worst case at the time.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
A man without a heroic bent starts dying at the age of thirty.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
It's harder to say 'no' when you really mean it.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
It's not a good idea to take a forecast from someone wearing a tie. If possible, tease people who take themselves and their knowledge too seriously.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
