It does not matter how frequently something succeeds if failure is too…

Nassim Nicholas Taleb
178 citations
It does not matter how frequently something succeeds if failure is too costly to bear. ✨ Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile, p.1439, Random House
Reading
29

More Author Quotes

The American people will eventually get hurt by this accumulated deficit. That's the problem. We have too much deficit. We have to find a solution. ✨ The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. December 3, 2 … ▶
The inability to predict outliers implies the inability to predict the course of history ✨ Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrust … ▶
Scientists may be in the business of laughing at their predecessors, but owing to an array of human mental dispositions, few realize that someone will laugh at their beliefs in the (disappointingly n … ▶
We tend to use knowledge as therapy. ✨ Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility, p.69, Random House
A prophet is not someone with special visions, just someone blind to most of what others see ✨ Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Proc … ▶

It does not matter how frequently something succeeds if failure is too costly to bear. ✨ Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile, p.1439, Random House

More Author Quotes

Most Cited Authors

The Best Quotes

Most Liked Authors

Curated Author Quotes