Georgean Britton

“And entrepreneurship is a risky and heroic activity, necessary for growth or even the mere survival of the economy.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder

“Voltaire said about God that ‘there is no God, but don’t tell that to my servant, lest he murder me at night’.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“In order to progress, modern society should be treating ruined entrepreneurs in the same way we honor dead soldiers, perhaps not with as much honor, but using exactly the same logic (the entrepreneur is still alive, though perhaps morally broken and socially stigmatized, particularly if he lives in Japan). For there is no such thing as a failed soldier, dead or alive (unless he acted in a cowardly manner)—likewise, there is no such thing as a failed entrepreneur or failed scientific researcher, any more than there is a successful babbler, philosophaster, commentator, consultant, lobbyist, or business school professor who does not take personal risks. (Sorry.)”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder