Don't tell me what you think, tell me what you have in your portfolio.
Investors
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Born in Lebanon in 1960, Nassim Nicholas Taleb transitioned from Wall Street options trader to thinker on uncertainty. He introduced Black Swan theory and the concept of antifragility, exposing humanity's cognitive blind spots regarding unpredictable risk. Having validated his theories during the 2008 financial crisis, he opened new frontiers in the field of risk engineering as a practitioner-intellectual.
View this figure's profile
Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Other Quotes
Wind extinguishes a candle and energizes fire. Likewise with randomness, uncertainty, chaos: you want to use them, not hide from them.
Suckers try to win arguments, non-suckers try to win.
If you see fraud and do not say fraud, you are a fraud.
The problem with experts is that they do not know what they do not know.
The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary.
Related Quotes
To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily; not to dare is to lose oneself.
-- Søren Kierkegaard
If you're not genuinely pained by the risk involved in your strategic choices, it's not much of a strategy.
-- Reed Hastings
You have to understand the business before you understand the stock.
-- Mario Gabelli
Concentration is the key. If you believe in something, you should bet big on it.
-- Bruce Berkowitz
The bulls might be right that the company's accounting is fine, but they're asking us to take it on faith. We prefer to verify.
-- David Einhorn
To buy when others are despondently selling and to sell when others are avidly buying requires the greatest fortitude and pays the greatest ultimate rewards.
-- John Templeton