Superstitions can be vectors for risk management rules. By Nassim Nicholas Taleb Business, Risk, Superstition, Wise
Never discount anything that allows you to survive. By Nassim Nicholas Taleb Life, Risk, Success, Wisdom, Wise
How much you truly “believe” in something can be manifested only through what you are willing to risk for it. By Nassim Nicholas Taleb Belief, Life, Risk, Success
Not everything that happens happens for a reason, but everything that survives survives. By Nassim Nicholas Taleb Life, Wisdom, Wise
For all it takes is for my paranoia to be right once, and it saves my life. By Nassim Nicholas Taleb Life, Risk, Wise
In a strategy that entails ruin, benefits never offset risks of ruin. By Nassim Nicholas Taleb Life, Risk, Wise
Survival comes first, truth, understanding, and science later. By Nassim Nicholas Taleb Life, Powerful, Science, Truth, Wise
Someone will try to sell you something until the point of degradation of your well-being, and a bit beyond that. By Nassim Nicholas Taleb Business, Life, Meaningful, Wise
It is immoral to be in opposition to the market system and not live in a hut or cave. By Nassim Nicholas Taleb Business, Powerful, Quotable, Wise
If your private life conflicts with your intellectual opinion, it cancels your intellectual ideas, not your private life. By Nassim Nicholas Taleb Life, Meaningful, Thoughtful, Wise
Courage is the only virtue you cannot fake. By Nassim Nicholas Taleb Courage, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, Risk
Courage (risk taking) is the highest virtue. We need entrepreneurs. By Nassim Nicholas Taleb Courage, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, Risk
If you understand nothing about the problem (like D.C. pundits) and have no skin in the game, then everything is seen through the prism of geopolitics. By Nassim Nicholas Taleb Geopolitics, Risk, Skin in the game, Wise
