Best quotes by Nassim Nicholas Taleb on People

Checkout quotes by Nassim Nicholas Taleb on People

  • There are two types of people: those who try to win and those who try to win arguments. They are never the same.
    - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • The mortgage crisis is a clear instance of consumers who needed protection. There was predatory lending to people who didn't know what they were doing.
    - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • People have the problem of denial. This is one of the things I learned in Lebanon. Everybody who left Beirut when the war started, including my parents, said, 'Oh, its temporary.' It lasted 17 years! People tend to underestimate the gravity of these situations. That's how they work.
    - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • In social policy, when we provide a safety net, it should be designed to help people take more entrepreneurial risks, not to turn them into dependents. This doesn't mean that we should be callous to the underprivileged.
    - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • When you ask people, 'What's the opposite of fragile?,' they tend to say robust, resilient, adaptable, solid, strong. That's not it. The opposite of fragile is something that gains from disorder.
    - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.
    - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.
    - Nassim Nicholas Taleb