“ Somehow it is only when you don’t care about your reputation that you tend to have a good one. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ We are the empirical decision makers who hold that uncertainty is our discipline, and that understanding how to act under conditions of incomplete information is the highest and most urgent human purs… Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ Likewise, an increase in personal performance (regardless of whether it is caused deterministically or by the agency of Lady Fortuna) induces a rise of serotonin in the subject, itself causing an incr… Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ Life is sacrifice and risk taking, and nothing that doesn't entail some moderate amount of the former, under the constraint of satisfying the latter, is close to what we can call life. If you do not u… Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ Probability and expectation are not the same. Its probability and probability times the pay off. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ The only valid political system is one that can handle an imbecile in power without suffering from it. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ Never listen to a leftist who does not give away his fortune or does not live the exact lifestyle he wants others to follow. What the French call the caviar left, la gauche caviar, or what Anglo-Saxon… Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ Mental effort moves us into higher gear, activating more vigorous and more analytical brain machinery. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ If my brain can ttell the difference between noise and signal, my heart cannot. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ And entrepreneurship is a risky and heroic activity, necessary for growth or even the mere survival of the economy. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ A prophet is not someone with special visions, just someone blind to most of what others see Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ The next time you experience a blackout, take some solace by looking at the sky. You will not recognize it. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ We flipped a coin to see who was going to pay for the meal. I lost and paid. He was about to thank me when he abruptly stopped and said that he paid for half of it probabilistically. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ The ethical is always more robust than the legal. Over time, it is the legal that should converge to the ethical, never the reverse. Laws come and go; ethics stay. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
