"You want your enemies to complain about you. The more they complain, the better." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

"You can tell how poor someone feels by the number of times he references "money" in his conversation." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

"I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

"If you want to teach someone a real skill, teach him how to fail. He will never learn it in school." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

"Genius is the side effect of madness, rather than the reverse." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

"In a thick and captivating book, La rebellion franaise, the historian Jean Nicolas shows how the culture of rioting was extremely sophisticated historically, it counts as the true French national sport." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in Antifragile

"People don't like it when you ask them for help; they also feel left out when you don't ask them for help." - Nassim Taleb

"You will never fully convince someone that he is wrong; only reality can." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in Skin in the Game

"Never think that lack of variability is stability. Don't confuse lack of volatility with stability, ever." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

"So let us call here the teleological fallacy the illusion that you know exactly where you are going, and that you knew exactly where you were going in the past, and that others have succeeded in the past by knowing where they were going." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in Antifragile

"In nature we never repeat the same motion; in captivity (office, gym, commute, sports), life is just repetitive-stress injury. No randomness." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in The Bed of Procrustes amazon.com/gp/product/198…

"Actors should not be the ones lektchuring the rest of us on ethics & morality. They also have a tendency to conflate virtue and its external manifestation, given that everything in their world is appearance. " - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

"Failure saves lives. In the airline industry, every time a plane crashes the probability of the next crash is lowered by that." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

"The difference between banks and the Mafia: banks have better legal-regulatory expertise, but the Mafia understands public opinion." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in The Bed of Procrustes

"You want to be yourself, idiosyncratic; the collective (school, rules, jobs, technology) wants you generic to the point of castration." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in The Bed of Procrustes amazon.com/gp/product/198…

"It is immoral to be in opposition to the market system and not live (somewhere in Vermont or Northwestern Afghanistan) in a hut or cave isolated from it." - Nassim Taleb

"You are honorable in proportion to the number of people to whom you can say "fuck you" with impunity but don't." - Nassim Taleb

"The simpler, the better. Complications lead to multiplicative chains of unanticipated effects." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in Antifragile amazon.com/Antifragile-Th…

"The opposite of fascism isn’t a democratic form of socialism; it’s localism." - Nassim Taleb #localism

"I never trust a man who doesn't have enemies." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb