Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes

4 quotes from Nassim Nicholas Taleb on investing and entrepreneurship.

On investing

• If you hear a "prominent" economist using the word 'equilibrium, ' or 'normal distribution, ' do not argue with him; just ignore him, or try to put a rat down his shirt.

• Suckers think that you cure greed with money, addiction with substances, expert problems with experts, banking with bankers, economics with economists, and debt crises with debt spending.

• The curious mind embraces science; the gifted and sensitive, the arts; the practical, business; the leftover becomes an economist.

On entrepreneurship

• A prophet is not someone who first had an idea. He is the one to first believe in it and take it to its conclusion.