Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes

You know, all kinds of people inspire me.

Obviously, as you grow up, no one's ever 100 percent proud of every decision that they've made, and that's OK. I think as long as you learn from your mistakes and don't make them over and over again, you're on the right path.

Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us; and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them.

I'm not going to say that a very young Charlie Weber is without his indiscretions. But not anymore; I'm way past those days.

Oprah Winfrey is a big role model for me from a business capacity and a creative capacity. She is an incredible interviewer who cultivated a certain style by inserting her own personhood into a show on national television at a time when no one was talking about empowerment, spirituality, or our inner lives.

Regardless of where the offer comes from, I'll choose characters that are inspiring and challenging.

It's inspiring being surrounded by people who do more than you. It makes you want to do better. You're in the position to learn from the best.

I was always inspired by the people I was around, like the older people spitting in my area or in Northampton, but I just always wanted to be better than the people that was around me.

Some people are just born human, the rest of us, we take a lifetime to get there.

We surround ourselves with what is better or see other people as role models. You go, "If they can do this, so can I." That starts to trigger people, as well.

People learn from failure or from lack of success.

We like to think of our champions and idols as superheroes who were born different from us. We don’t like to think of them as relatively ordinary people who made themselves extraordinary.

People pay to see others believe in themselves.

I was lucky to have the right heroes. Tell me who your heroes are and I'll tell you how you'll turn out to be. The qualities of the one you admire are the traits that you, with a little practice, can make your own, and that, if practiced, will become habit forming.

There are so many people I look up to and I try to watch some sort of video or interview every day, with an artist who does inspire me.

I'm always inspired by people who raise the bar, whether in their field of work, parenthood, or giving back.

The way to expand our lives is to model the lives of those people who are already succeeding.

I like challenges and I don't believe in failure. I don't believe in regrets. I believe suffering, failure - all those concepts - are things that are absolutely necessary to make us the best people that we can be, the best at whatever we want to do.

We grow into that which we admire.

Parents aren’t the people you come from. They’re the people you want to be, when you grow up.

One of the best ways to elevate your character is to emulate worthy role models

There are so many people with great work ethics that I've been around. I try and take the best qualities from the people I admire and apply it to my own self.

I'm inspired by the work of those (and sometimes even the people themselves) who strive to inspire.

Sometimes people - especially people over 40 - underestimate what they really are capable of. They believe they're not capable of doing something great. I tell people who are over 40, "I don't want your best. I want better than that. I want better than what you perceive your best is."

What drives me is truly inspiring people to realize they can live more creative and simple lives.