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Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes

Individuals should think about the worst-case scenarios and plan for them. The world will be crazier than you think it will be. Put money away, and then you can live with much more freedom.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: lebanese
Birth: 1960

Topics

Live Freedom Money World Think Plan

An inevitable question asked of a performer who has made a modest success of his career is, 'How has success changed you?' It's a loaded question because it automatically assumes that there has been a change. And, in a sense, the assumption is a correct one. Basically, however, most people remain pretty much the same.

Jim Nabors

Change Success People You Career

Mapplethorpe presented the body as a sexual object, separating it from the humanity of the person. He added nothing to photography as a medium. I hold his work in low regard.

Jerzy Kosinski

Work Photography Humanity Body Hold

The E.U. is more than just a trade organization or a common market; it is a guarantee of democracy, freedom, justice, and human rights. Nations cannot stay in the E.U. if they do not respect these guarantees.

John Bruton

Freedom Respect Justice Democracy

You've got to have an ego as big as Mars to want to think that you, of all people, are better than anyone else to be president of the United States. People that vain, they want their place in history, and they want to be able to control how much they'll be worshipped by future generations.

Jello Biafra

Future History People Control Ego

I like to wake up each morning feeling a new man.

Jean Harlow

Morning Man Wake Up Feeling New Up

I have a rescue dog named Fideo, which means 'noodle' in Spanish, and a cat named Hutch.

Ana Ortiz

Dog Cat Rescue Spanish Means Noodle

Some people may look at you almost like a fantasy at times, you know; some people don't think you're real. Because people forget that celebrities are humans too, sometimes.

Rita Ora

People Think You Look Sometimes

I have never been afraid of making patriots; but I disdain and despise all their efforts.

Robert Walpole

Never Afraid Patriots Been Despise

In my early 30s, for a few months, I altered my body chemistry and hormones so that I was closer to a man in his early 20s. I was blown away by how dramatically my thoughts changed.

Mary Lou Jepsen

Man Thoughts Body Early Chemistry

I'm a keen traveller, and I'm a nerd with planes and airports.

Michael Landes

Nerd Traveller Keen Planes

I'm going to focus on myself and continue to get myself better because I have plenty of things I need to work on.

Jared Goff

Work Myself Focus Better Need Going

When I was a kid, we played a jump rope game called double Dutch - where you had to jump over two ropes swinging in opposite directions. Picking just the right moment to jump in was a practiced art form.

Chris Gardner

Art Moment Game You Jump Right