Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes

Avoid losers. If you hear someone use the words ‘impossible’, ‘never’, ‘too difficult’ too often, drop him or her from your social network.

A Stoic is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into transformation, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking.

Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears.

If you see fraud and do not say fraud, you are a fraud.

Don’t aim to be perfect! Aim to be antifragile

The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.

We cannot truly plan, because we do not understand the future-but this is not necessarily a bad news. We could plan while bearing in mind such limitations. It just takes guts.

This is the central illusion in life: that randomness is a risk, that it is a bad thing.

The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary.

But it remains the case that you know what is wrong with a lot more confidence than you know what is right.

The same past data can confirm a theory and its exact opposite! If you survive until tomorrow, it could mean that either a) you are more likely to be immortal or b) that you are closer to death.

Comfort makes you weaker. We need some variability, some stressors. Not too much, but just enough.