Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes

Avoid cynical and negative people like the plague. They are killers of potential.

If you will make a deliberate decision to develop a positive attitude toward opportunities and obstacles, you are on your way toward having what is the most important quality in education: the power of positive thinking.

Cease negative mental chattering. If you think a thing is impossible, you'll make it impossible. Pessimism blunts the tools you need to succeed.

Focus on the possibilities for success, not on the potential for failure

In most of our situations in life, if we take a good honest look at our lives, we are holding to small, limiting thoughts, cynical thoughts.

I am a very optimistic person. I don't know if it is because I've come up right from the bottom, but I am someone who always thinks you can make things better.

I have stayed positive, and I believe I am still improving in every competition I enter.

Optimists enrich the present, enhance the future,challenge the improbable and attain the impossible

The Church of TED is very optimistic. Bulgarians are some of the most pessimistic in the world. There are the Happy, the Unhappy and the Bulgarians.

The only way to be productive is to be positive.

Choose the positive. You have choice, you are master of your attitude, choose the positive, the constructive. Optimism is a faith that leads to success.

Refuse to ever use the term 'failure' again about yourself or anyone else. Remind yourself that wehn things didn't go as planned you didn't fail, you only produced a result.

Pessimism is an excuse for not trying and a guarantee to a personal failure.

Don't just learn something from every experience, learn something positive.

Positive thinking will let you use the abilities, training and experience you have.

Positive thinking is a habit, like everything else, you get better at it with time.

A positive mindset, not a doomsday mentality, supports being exceptional.

When we learn to expect more success than failure in life, we soon will develop an attitude of success.

I might look successful but I've made many mistakes. People take their failures too seriously. You have to be positive and believe you will find success next time.

Aptitude starts with attitude.

You can make almost anything a learning or positive experience. I think I offer a good example of how to make the most out of what life gives you and how to keep moving on.

Positive minds produce positive lives. Negative minds produce negative lives. Positive thoughts are always full of faith and hope. Negative thoughts are always full of fear and doubt.

The greatest pollution problem we face today is negativity. Eliminate the negative attitude and believe you can do anything. Replace 'if I can, I hope, maybe' with 'I can, I will, I must.

What determines your altitude in life is your attitude.

You can't be a winner if you're a whiner...wiener.