Quotes About People

It seems that it is the most unsuccessful people who give the most advice, particularly for writing and financial matters.

What made medicine fool people for so long was that its successes were prominently displayed and its mistakes (literally) buried.

today we depend on the press for such essentially human things as gossip and anecdotes and we care about the private lives of people in very remote places.

I am never bothered by normal people; it is the bull***tter in the intellectual profession who bothers me. Seeing the psychologist Steven Pinker making pronouncements about things intellectual has a similar effect to encountering a drive-in Burger King while hiking in the middle of a national park.

A cluster of municipalities with charming provincial enmities, their own internal fights, and people out to get one another aggregates to a quite benign and stable state.

These were the days before I decided to climb up the mountain, speak slowly and in a priestly tone, and try shaming people rather than insulting them.

many problems in society come from the interventions of people who sell complicated solutions because that's what their position and training invite them

many problems in society come from the interventions of people who sell complicated solutions because that's what their position and training invite them to do.

There is no problem if people have a conflict of interest if it is congruous with downside risk for themselves.

grammar is something people without anything more exciting to do in their lives codify into a book. While

The question remains whether optimizers are unhappy because they are constantly seeking a better deal or if unhappy people tend to optimize out of their misery.

Yet simplicity has been difficult to implement in modern life because it is against the spirit of a certain brand of people who seek sophistication so they can justify their profession.

Never have people who talk and don't do been more visible, and played a larger role, than in modern times.

Never have people who talk and don't do been more visible, and played a larger role, than in modern times. This is the product of modernism and division of tasks.

We can, however, assess regularities by running precise and thorough experiments on how people react under certain conditions, and keep a tally of what we see.

yet people do it out of the foolish risk-taking trait that pushes us to jump into such adventures blinded by the outcome.

I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid. I meant to say that stupid people are generally Conservative," John Stuart Mill once complained.

I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid. I meant to say that stupid people are generally Conservative," John Stuart Mill once complained. This problem is chronic: if you tell people that the key to success is not always skills, they think that you are telling them that it is never skills, always luck.

I believe that risk aversion does not exist: what we observe is, simply, a residual of ergodicity. People are, simply, trying to avoid financial suicide and take a certain attitude to tail risks.

Trading may have princes, but nobody stays a king" and "The people you meet on the way up, you will meet again on the way down.

simplicity has been difficult to implement in modern life because it is against the spirit of a certain brand of people who seek sophistication so they can justify their profession.

Yet simplicity has been difficult to implement in modern life because it is against the spirit of a certain brand of people who seek sophistication so they can justify their profession. Less is more and usually more effective.

You can only convince people who think they can benefit from being convinced.

the reason free markets work is because they allow people to be lucky, thanks to aggressive trial and error, not by giving rewards or "incentives" for skill.