Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Courage is the only virtue you cannot fake.”
“Those who talk should do and only those who do should talk.”
“People who are bred, selected, and compensated to find complicated solutions do not have an incentive to implement simplified ones.”
“But never engage in detailed overexplanations of why something is important: one debases a principle by endlessly justifying it.”
“It is much more immoral to claim virtue without fully living with its direct consequences.”
“Learning is rooted in repetition and convexity, meaning that the reading of a single text twice is more profitable than reading two different things once.”
“What matters isn't what a person has or doesn't have; it is what he or she is afraid of losing.”
“Life is sacrifice and risk taking, and nothing that doesn't entail some moderate amount of the former, under the constraint of satisfying the latter, is close to what we can call life. If you do not undertake a risk of real harm, reparable or even potentially irreparable, from an adventure, it is not an adventure.”
“If your private life conflicts with your intellectual opinion, it cancels your intellectual ideas, not your private life.”
“If you do not take risks for your opinion, you're nothing.”
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