Nassim Nicholas Taleb

4 books with highlights

Books

Antifragile

18 highlights

Skin in the Game

20 highlights

The Black Swan

19 highlights

Featured Highlights

What we learn from history is that people don’t learn from history.

From Fooled by Randomness

You should be much more worried about your inability to predict the future than about your inability to predict the past.

From Skin in the Game

What is beautiful is good, and what is good will be chosen.

From Fooled by Randomness

The fool is the one who thinks he knows what he doesn’t know.

From Fooled by Randomness

History is written by the survivors.

From The Black Swan

You can’t put a price on your life.

From Antifragile

Fools are more likely to be right than the wise.

From Skin in the Game

Skin in the game is a very powerful filter.

From Skin in the Game

What you do is more important than what you say.

From Skin in the Game

We have a tendency to underestimate the influence of our environment.

From Skin in the Game