Marwan Elnakeeb

“Do not pay attention to what people say, only to what they do, and how much of their necks they are putting on the line.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life

“studying courage in textbooks doesn’t make you any more courageous than eating cow meat makes you bovine.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life

“Consider a more extreme example than the casino experiment. Assume a collection of people play Russian roulette a single time for a million dollars—this is the central story in Fooled by Randomness. About five out of six will make money. If someone used a standard cost-benefit analysis, he would have claimed that one has an 83.33 percent chance of gains, for an “expected” average return per shot of $833,333. But if you keep playing Russian roulette, you will end up in the cemetery. Your expected return is … not computable.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life

“If you do not take risks for your opinion, you're nothing.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life