Quotes About Black Swans

#1. Black Swans and tail events run the socioeconomic world

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#2. People who think they know what is going to happen next are fools. Surprises - or what the brilliant author Nassim Taleb calls 'Black Swans' - are inevitable. Some are likely to be desperately unpleasant too

Martin Wolf

#3. In economic life and history more generally, just about everything of consequence comes from black swans; ordinary events have paltry effects in the long term.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#4. In general, positive Black Swans take time to show their effect while negative ones happen very quickly - it is much easier and much faster to destroy than to build. (During

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#5. Don't understand? is, simply, work on the undesirable states of f(x). It is often easier to modify f(x) than to get better knowledge of x. (In other words, robustification rather than forecasting Black Swans.) Example: If I buy an insurance on

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#6. Now for reasons that have to do with the increase of the artificial, the move away from ancestral and natural models, and the loss in robustness owing to complications in the design of everything, the role of Black Swans in increasing.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#7. my antidote to Black Swans is precisely to be noncommoditized in my thinking. But

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#8. Did I just think about licking Liam like he was a Popsicle or something?

Kirsty Moseley

#9. And the black box in her arms whimpered itself to sleep with longing to be a normal person who is chosen, not a special person who is discovered. To be the kind of duck who gets included by wild swans

Nell Zink

#10. One single observation can invalidate a general statement derived from millennia of confirmatory sightings of millions of white swans. All you need is one single (and, I am told, quite ugly) black bird.*

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#11. Trust yourself so that the mistakes you make are the ones you've made and not something you've made because you were afraid to do what you wanted to do. Own your mistakes, then you can own your successes.

Jennifer Lynch

#12. A rare bird on this earth, like nothing so much as a black swan.

Juvenal

#13. The central idea in The Black Swan is that: rare events cannot be estimated from empirical observation since they are rare.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#14. So the world is much more correlated than we give credit to. And so we see more of what Nassim Taleb calls "black swan events" - rare events happen more often than they should because the world is more correlated.

Richard Thaler

#15. No number of sightings of white swans can prove the theory that all swans are white. The sighting of just one black one may disprove it.

Karl Popper

#16. I've become so numb, I can't feel you there. Become so tired, so much more aware. In becoming this, all I want to do, is be more like me. And be less like you.

Linkin Park

#17. I came to live in a country I love; some people label me a defector. I have loved men and women in my life; I've been labeled the bisexual defector. Want to know another secret? I'm even ambidextrous. I don't like labels. Just call me Martina.

Martina Navratilova

#18. A friend is more to be longed for than the light; I speak of a genuine one. And wonder not: for it were better for us that the sun should be extinguished, than that we should be deprived of friends; better to live in darkness, than to be without friends

John Chrysostom

#19. I always believed I was an ugly duckling in a family of swans, you know? I was such a black sheep, and it was the same way in high school ... I was just kind of that awkward theater kid with a bunch of athletes ... it was very 'Glee.'

Lindsay Pearce

#20. Here I am, where I ought to be.

Karen Blixen

#21. A rare bird upon the earth and very much like a black swan.

Juvenal

#22. The evening advanced. The shadows lengthened. The waters of the lake grew pitchy black. The gliding of the ghostly swans became rare and more rare.

Wilkie Collins

#23. Fashion is something that you can attach to yourself, put on, and through that interaction, the meaning of it is born.

Rei Kawakubo

#24. I was pretty sure the only two rooms I needed in my house were a kitchen with a huge table and a library full of books. "It'll

April White

#25. You can achieve anything if you believe in yourself. But the opposite is also true; without strong self-belief you will not go far.

Paulo Coelho

#26. Lots of small business men have been contacting me to say they wish they had the nerve to say what I said.

David A. Siegel