Antifragility Quotes

“If we are to remain relevant, we need to build antifragile foundations to prepare for disruption and benefit from any disorder. We must create innovative, fluid, and adventurous mindsets as well as social and economic networked ecosystems that strengthen from stress, random events, and shocks.”
― Roger Spitz, The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume IV - Disruption as a Springboard to Value Creation

“Building antifragile foundations is like building an immune system for our lives and projects.”
― Roger Spitz, The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume II - Essential Frameworks for Disruption and Uncertainty

“Developing antifragility means focusing on the amplitude and nature of potential consequences, not the probability.”
― Roger Spitz, The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume II - Essential Frameworks for Disruption and Uncertainty

“The trade-off between efficiency and resiliency is a trade-off between fragile and antifragile.”
― Roger spitz, The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume II - Essential Frameworks for Disruption and Uncertainty

“If we are to remain relevant, we must create innovative social and economic ecosystems that become stronger under stress and through shocks.”
― Roger Spitz, The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume II - Essential Frameworks for Disruption and Uncertainty

“Building antifragile foundations is like building an immune system.”
― Roger Spitz, Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World

“Whether personal or organizational, building capacity to effectively deal with change creates resilience, and without exceptional resilience there is no antifragility.”
― Roger Spitz, The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume III - Beta Your Life: Existence in a Disruptive World

“The objective is not to get the future right. Rather, our work spurs better preparation for any of the futures which may arise.”
― Roger Spitz, The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume II - Essential Frameworks for Disruption and Uncertainty

“The issue with uncompromising reliance on flawed assumptions is not being wrong, but being unprepared for alternative outcomes.”
― Roger Spitz, The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume II - Essential Frameworks for Disruption and Uncertainty

“If we are to remain relevant, we need to build antifragile foundations to prepare for disruption and benefit from any disorder.”
― Roger Spitz, The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume II - Essential Frameworks for Disruption and Uncertainty

“If we are to remain relevant and not delegate our strategic decision-making to machines, we must create innovative social and economic ecosystems that become stronger under stress and through shocks.”
― Roger Spitz, The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume I - Reframing and Navigating Disruption

“This need for humans to enhance their capabilities to become AAA is relevant in the context of machines learning faster, with increasingly higher-level human functions.”
― Roger Spitz, The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume I - Reframing and Navigating Disruption

“To remain relevant in the age of AI, we must actively build antifragile foundations that are resilient under stress, and strengthen with shocks.”
― Roger Spitz, Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World

“This asymmetry means that the fragile suffers a disproportionate amount of downside from shocks.”
― Roger Spitz, Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World

“Decentralized systems can offer more resilience and antifragility, as this single point of failure does not exist.”
― Roger Spitz, Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World

“Developing antifragility means focusing on the amplitude of potential consequences, not the probability.”
― Roger Spitz, Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World

“Winston Churchill once said to his fellow countrymen, “We have not journeyed across the centuries, across the oceans, across the mountains, across the prairies, because we are made of sugar candy.” Today, thanks to a malign combination of litigation, regulation, and pedagogical fashion, sugar-candy people are everywhere.”
― Alan Greenspan, Capitalism in America: An Economic History of the United States

“Stoicism makes you desire the challenge of a calamity.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder