Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes

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

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• We are all focused each and every day on doing our jobs, chief executive of our states, until the very last hour that we are in office, and certainly the president is as well.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Day
  • Doing
  • Everyday

• We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.

  

  Daniel Drew
  • Want
  • Relationship
  • Marriage

• Maybe some people that only listen to electronic music will pick up my record and get turned on to some of the story songs, some of the more country-type stuff.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Great
  • Attention
  • Health

• A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • People
  • Children
  • Love

• I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.

  

  Patrick Wang
  • Time
  • Find
  • Strange

• Every single one of the guys that I've written songs about has been tracked down on MySpace by my fans.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Single
  • Fans
  • Down

• I used to love to create outfits, and I still do - I just don't have the time. How can you wear one thing and never wear it again? Even my wedding dress - I had a dress made that I could wear again. I'm a child of the depression, so I'm very, very practical.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Time
  • Depression
  • Very

• If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • May
  • Style
  • Failure

• My job is making money, helping other people make money. I am spending money, trying to make sure more people get rich, because you cannot spend a lot of money, right? So my job is spending money, helping others. This is a headache.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Trying
  • Money

• I make my own face exfoliant at home, using finely ground rice powder mixed with milk or yogurt. I also treat my skin to a honey, rose water, glycerine and lemon face pack. The honey moisturises, and the lemon removes impurities.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Home
  • Water
  • Rose

• Well, my first languages are German and Spanish because I was brought up by a Spanish mother and a German father, so I always spoke both languages at home. I'm very thankful that I was brought up in a bilingual house.

  

  Daniel Bruhl
  • Up
  • Home
  • Mother

• I'm like all parents who try to shelter their children.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Try

• Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.

  

  Barack Obama
  • War
  • Police
  • Planning

• I feel Dress for Success is basically about empowering women who were in a disadvantaged situation. The act of wearing a suit when she's walking in the door, it's so powerful - it's about gaining control of their lives and situations.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Women
  • She
  • Success

• Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities.

  

  Isaac D'Israeli
  • Happy
  • Man
  • Qualities

• I've become invested with this symbolic power. It really does transcend what I'm actually doing and what I actually deserve.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Power
  • Doing
  • Deserve

• The cool thing about reading is that when you read a short story or you read something that takes your mind and expands where your thoughts can go, that's powerful.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Mind
  • Reading
  • Powerful

• I've stood in rooms in urban, rural, and suburban parts of my state and asked a room of middle class voters to raise their hands if the college debt of someone in their family is affecting their financial situation. Without exception, at least three quarters of the room will raise their hand.

  

  Jason Kander
  • Family
  • College
  • Hand

• I'm not a stranger to high-pressure situations. I've been there, believe me.

  

  Elisabeth Hasselbeck
  • Believe
  • High

• Fading, fading: strength beyond hope and despair climbing the third stair. Lord, I am not worthy Lord, I am not worthy but speak the word only.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Hope

• Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth, and the life." In order for you yourself to become the way, the truth, and the life, you must embrace the whole universe and bring harmony to it.

  

  Sun Myung Moon
  • Universe
  • Jesus
  • Order

• When you're in the position I'm in, you have two options: you can either shut yourself off from everybody, from the world, and not live a full life. Or you welcome everybody into your life and occasionally somebody will try to take advantage.

  

  Daniel Radcliffe
  • Life
  • World
  • Live

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

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • World
  • Business
  • Science