By all means, avoid words—threats, complaints, justification, narratives, reframing, attempts to — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I’ve debated many economists who claim to specialize in risk and probability: — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The government-sponsored institution Fannie Mae, when I look at its risks, seems — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Modernity has replaced ethics with legalese, and the law can be gamed with a good lawyer. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
You have family-owned businesses that have been around for 500 years. You cannot — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Life is a tightrope between two errors: generalizing the wrong particular and — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Decomposition, for most, starts when they leave the free, social, and uncorrupted — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
This is the tragedy of modernity: as with neurotically overprotective parents, those — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Most people are sceptical about the wrong things and gullible about the wrong things. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The rationalist imagines an imbecile-free society; the empiricist and imbecile-proof one, or — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
We learn the most from fools … yet we pay them back with the worst ingratitude. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb