Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes

A country's assets reside in the tinkerers, the hobbyists, and the risk-takers.

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• The treatment by some towards these young refugees is hideously racist and utterly heartless. What's happening to our country?

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Country
  • Young
  • Heartless

• Export anything to a friendly country except American management.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Country
  • American
  • Management

• I hate to say it but I think it has become very obvious that our system for devising trade agreements, so very important to this country's functioning around the world, has not only broken, but it has broken completely.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • World
  • Important
  • Country

• I grew and learned, journeyed and understood, that someone who is afraid of failing won't get anywhere, and someone who dares to do it runs the risk of failure if they don't learn, correct their mistakes, and get back up.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Up
  • Risk
  • Failure

• If I had undertaken the practical direction of military operations, and anything went amiss, I feared that my conscience would torture me, as guilty of the fall of my country, as I had not been familiar with military tactics.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • Country
  • Military
  • Guilty

• My father in the film - which we probably haven't seen in previous movies, and in British Asian movies you could probably count on one hand - he says exactly why, actually why he's frightened for his daughter. He came to this country, England, and had a bit of a crappy time.

  

  Parminder Nagra
  • Time
  • Country
  • Why

• I learned that fighting on the chess board could also have an impact on the political climate in the country.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Country
  • Political
  • Fighting

• I'm a registered, vetted gun owner, but that's because I live way out in the country, like way out in the middle of nowhere.

  

  Naomi Judd
  • Live
  • Country
  • Gun

• There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • People
  • Country
  • Man

• How can you have an educated workforce, how do you equal the economic disparities in this country, if you can't make college more affordable for those who are struggling to make it?

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Country
  • You
  • College

• Risk is the sort of word that is easy to discuss upfront but tough to handle when it comes time to pay the piper. There will always be some who wimp out and second-guess when the pain hits, but that is a childish reaction.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Time
  • Pain
  • Risk

• There's about one sword-swallower per 2 to 4 million persons in each country.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • Country
  • Million
  • Per

• In general, if signs of sectarianism do appear in a Socialist Party, these are only the products of the absence of a broad Labour movement in the country.

  

  Karl Radek
  • Country
  • Party
  • Movement

• There was always a love-hate relationship with New York in the rest of the country, but I made them feel more love than hate.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Country
  • Hate
  • Relationship

• When I go to a country, I go to flea markets, antique stores. I am always looking for something.

  

  Ursula Andress
  • Country
  • Antique
  • Flea Markets

• New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Country
  • New
  • Sheep

• Anyone who has been to India - specifically Rajasthan, the rich and kingly region in the country's northwest - knows that when it comes to adornment, Indians do not think like other people.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • People
  • Country
  • Think

• I was definitely very much a country boy.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Country
  • Boy
  • Country Boy

• Before I started modeling, I had never been out of the country, and now I feel like I'm out of the country at least a few times a month, if not once a week.

  

  Jacquelyn Jablonski
  • Country

• Tupac has always been somebody who represented a higher consciousness of what it means on both sides of the coin to be black in America. He and Prince were leaders who moved to the beat of their own drum, and I can only hope to follow in their footsteps.

  

  Kat Graham
  • America
  • Hope
  • Black

• Every time I catch myself saying, "Oh no, you shouldn't try that," I think, "Yes, I should."

  

  Erica Jong
  • Think
  • Should
  • Saying

• I got a kick out of the stands when they would heckle me. I would take the energy from that.

  

  Kurt Russell
  • Energy

• Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events.

  

  John Berger
  • Time
  • Political
  • Greek

• A country's assets reside in the tinkerers, the hobbyists, and the risk-takers.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Country
  • Risk
  • Assets