Nassim Nicholas Taleb Needs Quotations

What we need to do is break the financial community's grip on society.

You don't become completely free by just avoiding being a slave; you also need to avoid becoming a master.

Comfort makes you weaker. We need some variability, some stressors. Not too much, but just enough.

Modernity needs to understand that being rich and becoming rich are not mathematically, personally, socially, and ethically the same thing.

You need a story to displace a story.

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