A Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

A country's assets reside in the tinkerers, the hobbyists, and the risk-takers.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Lebanese - Scientist
Born: 1960

The thing about immigrants is the people who come to this country with that kind of drive? They are risk-takers. And we need risk-takers who want to improve their lives, create jobs and do those things that add to the dynamism of our economy.

Mazie Hirono

Jerk equals narcissist.Narcissists tend to be risk takers. Risk takers happen to do better in general in businesses. So jerk equals narcissist, equals risk taker.

Eric Bolling

If you look at who starts new businesses, people that are innovative and risk takers. When you look at immigrants, you really have to be an innovator and a risk taker to leave everything you know in the old country and go to a new country. People that come here in America come here to work.

Michael Bloomberg

Our culture rightly admires risk-takers, but we need our 'heed-takers' more than ever.

Susan Cain

In today's rapidly changing world, the people who are not taking risk are the risk takers.

Robert Kiyosaki

I don't think that Chinese ownership of U.S. assets is so large as to put our country at risk economically.

Ben Bernanke

You don't get rewarded for taking risk; you get rewarded for buying cheap assets. And if the assets you bought got pushed up in price simply because they were risky, then you are not going to be rewarded for taking a risk; you are going to be punished for it.

Jeremy Grantham

When something looks really risky from the outside, what people are doing on the inside - they're not professional risk takers. But they're probably professional risk mitigators.

Anne McClain

The average American thinks billionaire investors are going to be right based on some talking head. They invest and they have no backup plan. Americans think these guys are giant risk-takers. The truth is they believe in taking as little risk as humanly possible, for the maximum amount of upside. They're looking for that spread of disproportionate risk-reward.

Tony Robbins

I'm grateful to all the non-risk-takers.

Sturgill Simpson

Risk management systems and controls may discourage or limit certain revenue-generating opportunities. Failure to ensure the independence of these functions from the revenue generators and risk takers has been shown to be dangerous, and this is something for which the board is accountable.

Jerome Powell

It's the risk takers that move the human race forward.

Brian Tracy

The future belongs to the risk-takers, not the comfort-seekers .

Brian Tracy

I have always believed that the risk takers are eventually rewarded.

Kevin Spacey

When does money run out of time? The countdown begins when investable assets pose too much risk for too little return; when lenders desert credit markets for other alternatives such as cash or real assets.

Bill Gross

I like risk takers. They're the ones that end up changing the world.

Marcela Valladolid

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