Nassim Nicholas Taleb Mistake Quotations

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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