The fragile wants tranquility, the antifragile grows from disorder, and the robust doesn't care too much.

If you are in banking and lending, surprise outcomes are likely to be negative for you.

Is the economy something organic or is it something engineered? I think it's closer to the organic. You harm it by artificially suppressing volatility in it.

Don't aim to be perfect! Aim to be antifragile

To bankrupt a fool, give him information.

But they never notice the following inconsistency: this so-called worst-case event, when it happened, exceeded the worst case at the time.

Probability and expectation are not the same. Its probability and probability times the pay off.