Zitate von Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Geburtstag: 11. September 1960
Andere Namen: 나심 니컬러스 탈레브, نسیم نقولا طالب
Nassim Nicholas Taleb ist ein Essayist und Forscher in den Bereichen Statistik, Zufall und Epistemologie und ehemaliger Finanzmathematiker. Er arbeitete als Spezialist für komplexe Finanzderivate in mehreren Wall-Street-Unternehmen, bevor er eine zweite Karriere als Wissenschaftler begann und sich mit den Methoden der Berechnung und Interpretation von Zufallsereignissen und dem Umgang mit unvorhergesehenen seltenen, aber mächtigen Ereignissen beschäftigte.Taleb hat es zu seinem Stil gemacht, seine wissenschaftlichen Texte mit autobiografischen Anekdoten auszuschmücken.
Zitate Nassim Nicholas Taleb
„You may never know what type of person someone is unless they are given opportunities to violate moral or ethical codes.“
Quelle: Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder
„My idea of the modern Stoic sage is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into information, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking.“
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, buch Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
Quelle: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012), p. 156
„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, buch The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
Quelle: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 26
„They will envy you for your success, your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status - but rarely for your wisdom.“
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, buch The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
Quelle: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
„Remember that you are a Black Swan.“
Quelle: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
„This is the central illusion in life: that randomness is a risk, that it is a bad thing …“
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, buch Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
Quelle: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012), p. 84
„Love without sacrifice is like theft“
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, buch The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
Quelle: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
„Charm is the ability to insult people without offending them; nerdiness the reverse.“
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, buch The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
Quelle: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 30
„Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears“
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, buch The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
Quelle: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
„Missing a train is only painful if you run after it! Likewise, not matching the idea of success others expect from you is only painful if that’s what you are seeking.“
Quelle: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
„When you develop your opinions on the basis of weak evidence, you will have difficulty interpreting subsequent information that contradicts these opinions, even if this new information is obviously more accurate.“
Quelle: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
„The psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer has a simple heuristic. Never ask the doctor what you should do. Ask him what he would do if he were in your place. You would be surprised at the difference“
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, buch Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
Quelle: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
„Heroes are heroes because they are heroic in behavior, not because they won or lost.“
Quelle: Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
