“When people call you intelligent it is almost always because they agree with you. Otherwise, they would call you arrogant.”

—Nassim Nicholas Taleb.

“Never complain about people, no matter how justified. Just drive them to complain about you.”

—Nassim Nicholas Taleb.

“Study something old but not visibly useful (classics), something modern and useful (accounting, coding), never something new and not visibly useful.”

—Nassim Nicholas Taleb.

“Money corrupts those who talk (& write) about it more than those who earn it.”

—Nassim Nicholas Taleb. 

‘You can change the mind of someone who says “no”; never the minds of those who say nothing.’

—Nassim Nicholas Taleb. 

“If you know the truth and decline to speak the truth, you are not living truthfully.”

—Nassim Nicholas Taleb. 

“Regular minds find similarities in stories (and situations); finer minds detect differences.”

—Nassim Nicholas Taleb.