Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
What fools call wasting time is most often the best investment.
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
Time
Wasting
Fools
Investment
Fool
Call
Often
Best
More quotes by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
An option hides where we don't want it to hide.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
An erudite is someone who displays less than he knows a journalist or consultant the opposite.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Your reputation is harmed the most by what you say to defend it.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Heroes are heroes because they are heroic in behavior, not because they won or lost.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Alan Greenspan is unskilled you don't take the unskilled seriously.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I want to live happily in a world I don’t understand.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
If humans fight the last war, nature fights the next one.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Maximum of an average is necessarily less volatile than the average maximum
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The difference between slaves in Roman and Ottoman days and today's employees is that slaves did not need to flatter their boss.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Someone who says I am busy is either declaring incompetence (and lack of control of his life) or trying to get rid of you.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Don't read newspapers for the news (just for the gossip and, of course, profiles of authors). The best filter to know if the news matters is if you hear it in cafes, restaurants... or (again) parties.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Asking science to explain life and vital matters is equivalent to asking a grammarian to explain poetry.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The book is the only medium left that hasn't been corrupted by the profane.
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
Only in recent history has working hard signaled pride rather than shame for lack of talent, finesse and, mostly, sprezzatura .
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Is the economy something organic or is it something engineered? I think it's closer to the organic. You harm it by artificially suppressing volatility in it.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
