Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes About Mistakes

Quotes about: Mistakes

• A mistake is not something to be determined after the fact, but in the light of the information until that point.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Mistake, Light, Information

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2008). “Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets”, p.56, Random House

• Make sure that you are in a situation where the constant mistakes are small and can be used for something.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Mistake, Used, Situation

  Source: www.pbs.org

• A Stoic is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into transformation, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Pain, Mistake, Desire

• Debt is a mistake between lender and borrower, and both should suffer.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Mistake, Suffering, Debt

  "We still have the same disease". Interview with Margaret Wente, www.theglobeandmail.com. September 13, 2009.

• Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Mistake, People, Harm

• It is often the mistakes of others that benefit the rest of us and, sadly, not them ... For the antifragile, harm from errors should be less than the benefits.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Mistake, Errors, Benefits

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2012). “Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder”, p.72, Random House

• Bankers, they're not harmed by their mistakes. They benefit when things go right, and the society pays the price.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Mistake, Pay The Price, Bankers

  Source: www.pbs.org

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