Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I want to write books that only those who read them claim they did.

When I die, I want the highest number of firemen, risk takers, & other real people and the smallest number of academics to attend my funeral.

Looks like the only people who do not think that economists are bullshitters are economists.

Virtue is when the income you wish to show the tax agency exceeds what you wish to show your neighbor.

The absurdity of money is that it is only good for you if you don't spend it.

Finance professors have the highest salaries in academia, we overpay for them to stay on campus.

The way people reveal unconsciously that an action would be in their best interest is by telling you that it is 'in *your* best interest'.

Unlike dilettantes, career professionals are to knowledge what prostitutes are to love.

So long as you see the picture of Larry Summers going to Davos, you have to stay short U.S. Treasuries for another year. It means they [the Obama administration] don't know what's going on.

They wouldn't listen to me. So I decided, to hell with them, I'll take their money instead.

I want you to write down that I started wearing them [Steve Jobs turtlenecks] before he did. I want that to be known.

The last guy I had was a fucking dick. He wanted to be artsy fartsy. You're OK.

dessert... in his opinion they're 'crap' and he will only eat Lebanese pastries.

Every single person still supporting Trump needs a cognitive test --particularly if the person is on the traditional right.

The world is more random than we think, and we are more fragile than we think.

The most dangerous people in the world are the ones who think they know what they’re doing.

The only way to be truly antifragile is to have skin in the game.

The problem with modernity is that we are building a world we don’t understand.

The most overrated virtue is intelligence. The most underrated virtue is courage.