# Nassim Nicholas Taleb

- Quotes: 188
- Author page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/nassim-nicholas-taleb

## Books

- [Antifragile](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nassim-nicholas-taleb/antifragile.md) — 36 quotes
- [Fooled by Randomness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nassim-nicholas-taleb/fooled-by-randomness.md) — 59 quotes
- [Skin in the Game](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nassim-nicholas-taleb/skin-in-the-game.md) — 14 quotes
- [The Bed of Procrustes](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nassim-nicholas-taleb/the-bed-of-procrustes.md) — 59 quotes
- [The Black Swan](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nassim-nicholas-taleb/the-black-swan.md) — 20 quotes

## Recently added quotes

> People who are bred, selected, and compensated to find complicated solutions do not have an incentive to implement simplified ones.

p. 162 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nassim-nicholas-taleb/skin-in-the-game/people-who-are.md)

> Evidence of submission is displayed by the employee’s going through years depriving himself of his personal freedom for nine hours every day, his ritualistic and punctual arrival at an office, his denying himself his own schedule, and his not having beaten up anyone on the way back home after a bad day. He is an obedient, housebroken dog.

p. 98 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nassim-nicholas-taleb/skin-in-the-game/evidence-of-submission.md)

> If your private life conflicts with your intellectual opinion, it cancels your intellectual ideas, not your private life.

p. 185 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nassim-nicholas-taleb/skin-in-the-game/if-your-private.md)

> What we saw worldwide from 2014 to 2018, from India to the U.K. to the U.S., was a rebellion against the inner circle of no-skin-in-the-game policymaking "clerks" and journalists-insiders, that class of paternalistic semi-intellectual experts with some Ivy League, Oxford-Cambridge or similar label-driven education who are telling the rest of us 1) what to do, 2) what to eat, 3) how to speak, 4) how to think, and… 5) whom to vote for.

p. 123 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nassim-nicholas-taleb/skin-in-the-game/what-we-saw.md)

> Survival comes first, truth, understanding, and science later.

p. 214 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nassim-nicholas-taleb/skin-in-the-game/survival-comes-first.md)

> Much of aging comes from a misunderstanding of the effect of comfort.

p. 55 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nassim-nicholas-taleb/antifragile/much-of-aging.md)

> The knowledge we get by tinkering, via trial and error, experience, and the workings of time, in other words, contact with the earth, is vastly superior to that obtained through reasoning, something self-serving institutions have been very busy hiding from us.

p. 7 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nassim-nicholas-taleb/skin-in-the-game/the-knowledge-we-get.md)

> When some systems are stuck in a dangerous impasse, randomness and only randomness can unlock them and set them free.

p. 102 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nassim-nicholas-taleb/antifragile/when-some-systems.md)

> There is no such thing as a failed soldier, dead or alive (unless he acted in a cowardly manner)—likewise there is no such thing as a failed entrepreneur or failed scientific researcher ...

p. 79 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nassim-nicholas-taleb/antifragile/there-is-no-such.md)

> It is all about redundancy. Nature likes to overinsure itself.

p. 44 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nassim-nicholas-taleb/antifragile/it-is-all.md)

> I want to live happily in a world I don't understand.

p. 4 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nassim-nicholas-taleb/antifragile/i-want-to-live.md)

> Few understand that procrastination is our natural defense, letting things take care of themselves and exercise their antifragility.

p. 122 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nassim-nicholas-taleb/antifragile/few-understand-that.md)