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The Attack
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You Americans have no idea about what a terrible blow to your reputation you suffered retreating from Afghanistan in disgrace as you did. The jihadi enemy looked at that and they believed that if they could inflict one great blow, America
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“How much you truly “believe” in something can be manifested only through what you are willing to risk for it.”
― Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
― Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
“Don’t tell me what you think, tell me what you have in your portfolio.”
― Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
― Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
“Alexander said that it was preferable to have an army of sheep led by a lion than an army of lions led by a sheep.”
― Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
― Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
“Let us return to pathemata mathemata (learning through pain) and consider its reverse: learning through thrills and pleasure. People have two brains, one when there is skin in the game, one when there is none. Skin in the game can make boring things less boring. When you have skin in the game, dull things like checking the safety of the aircraft because you may be forced to be a passenger in it cease to be boring. If you are an investor in a company, doing ultra-boring things like reading the footnotes of a financial statement (where the real information is to be found) becomes, well, almost not boring.”
― Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
― Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
“The business of philosophy is to teach man to live in uncertainty... not to reassure him, but to upset him.”
― All Things are Possible
― All Things are Possible
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