Nassim Nicholas Taleb Zitate

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„Sie sind nur dann reich, wenn Geld, das Sie ablehnen, besser schmeckt als Geld, das Sie annehmen.“

„Die Hälfte der Menschen lügt mit den Lippen; die andere Hälfte mit ihren Tränen.“

„Die Menschen trugen gewöhnliche Kleidung wochentags und am Sonntag formelle Kleidung. Heute ist es genau umgekehrt.“

„Sie haben ein echtes Leben, wenn Sie mit niemandem in einem Ihrer Bestrebungen konkurrieren.“

„Was Dummköpfe als „Zeitverschwendung“ bezeichnen, ist meistens die beste Investition.“

„Es ist die Schwierigkeit, die das Genie in uns wecken.“

“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.”

“You exist if and only if you are free to do things without a visible objective, with no justification and, above all, outside the dictatorship of someone else’s narrative.”

“Those who do not think that employment is systemic slavery are either blind or employed.”

“There is a certain category of fool—the overeducated, the academic, the journalist, the newspaper reader, the mechanistic "scientist", the pseudo-empiricist, those endowed with what I call "epistemic arrogance", this wonderful ability to discount what they did not see, the unobserved.”

“What is nonmeasurable and nonpredictable will remain nonmeasurable and nonpredictable … no matter how much hate mail I get.”

“In science you need to understand the world; in business you need others to misunderstand it.”

“It takes extraordinary wisdom and self-control to accept that many things have a logic we do not understand that is smarter than our own.”

“Our greatest asset is the one we distrust the most: the built-in antifragility of certain risk-taking systems.”

“Restaurants get you in with food to sell you liquor; religions get you in with belief to sell you rules.”

“Much of the research into humans' risk-avoidance machinery shows that it is antiquated and unfit for the modern world; it is made to counter repeatable attacks and learn from specifics. If someone narrowly escapes being eaten by a tiger in a certain cave, then he learns to avoid that cave.”

“You may not be able to change the world but can at least get some entertainment and make a living out of the epistemic arrogance of the human race.”

“It’s harder to say no when you really mean it.”

“You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.”

“What they call “play” (gym, travel, sports) looks like work.”

“Wittgenstein's ruler: "Unless you have confidence in the ruler's reliability, if you use a ruler to measure a table you may also be using the table to measure the ruler."”

“Injecting some confusion stabilizes the system.”

“You can be an intellectual yet still be an idiot. 'Educated philistines' have been wrong on everything from Stalinism to Iraq to low-carb diets.”

“It is the asymmetry of the bonus system that got us here. No incentives without disincentives: capitalism is about rewards and punishments, not just rewards.”

“Someone who says “I am busy” is either declaring incompetence (and lack of control of his life) or trying to get rid of you.”

“Mild success can be explainable by skills and labor. Wild success is attributable to variance.”

“We didn't get where we are thanks to the sissy notion of resilience.”

“We should reward people, not ridicule them, for thinking the impossible.”

“The best test of whether someone is extremely stupid (or extremely wise) is whether financial and political news makes sense to him.”

“A mistake is not something to be determined after the fact, but in the light of the information until that point.”

“To be completely cured of newspapers, spend a year reading the previous week’s newspapers.”

“When we want to do something while unconsciously certain to fail, we seek advice so we can blame someone else for the failure.”

“Modernity widened the distance between the sensational and the relevant.”

“For the classics philosophical insight was the product of a life of leisure; for me a life of leisure is the product of philosophical insight.”

“The antifragility of the higher level may require the fragility—and sacrifice—of the lower one.”