Quote

Greatness starts with the replacement of hatred with polite disdain.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

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
Hatred
Greatness
Replacement
Replacements
Disdain
Polite
Starts

More quotes by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Image
It has been more profitable for us to bind together in the wrong direction than to be alone in the right one.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Image
If you don't feel that you haven't read enough, you haven't read enough.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Image
Just as being nice to the arrogant is no better than being arrogant toward the nice, being accommodating toward anyone committing a nefarious action condones it.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Image
There are secrets to our world that only practice can reveal, and no opinion or analysis will ever capture in full.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Image
If I could predict what my day would exactly look like, I would feel a little bit dead.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Image
What is nonmeasurable and nonpredictable will remain nonmeasurable and nonpredictable ... no matter how much hate mail I get.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Image
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
Image
Maximum of an average is necessarily less volatile than the average maximum
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Image
Only in recent history has working hard signaled pride rather than shame for lack of talent, finesse and, mostly, sprezzatura .
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Image
The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Image
The book is the only medium left that hasn't been corrupted by the profane.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Image
The sucker's trap is when you focus on what you know and what others don't know, rather than the reverse.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Image
Let me be more aggressive: we are largely better at doing than we are at thinking, thanks to antifragility. I’d rather be dumb and antifragile than extremely smart and fragile, any time.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Image
Success is becoming in middle adulthood what you dreamed to be in late childhood.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Image
We should probably stop trading derivatives, anything more complex than regular options ... I am an options trader, and I don't understand options. How do you want a regulator to understand them?
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Image
The worst side effect of wealth is the social associations it forces on its victims, as people with big houses end up socializing with other people with big houses.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Image
It is a sign of weakness to avoid showing signs of weakness.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Image
I lift heavy weights and sprint, but I am so bad at it that I develop severe injuries.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Image
It is remarkable how fast and how effectively you can construct a nationality with a flag , a few speeches, and a national anthem to this day I avoid the label Lebanese, preferring the less restrictive Levantine designation.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Image
I don't know anyone on Wall Street who goes to work every day thinking of anything but how to increase their bonus.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb