Given the number of people trying to get on the money-making bus, there is a progressive accumulation of Black Swan risks in such systems. Then, boom, the systemic blowup happens. Nassim Nicholas Taleb Black swan, Business, Failure, Money, Risk You May Also Like Do the thing you are afraid to do, and the death of fear is certain. By Ralph Waldo Emerson Courage, Empowering, Failure, Fear Nothing ventured, nothing gained. By Anonymous Courage, Daring, Life, Risk Skin in the game prevents systems from rotting. By Nassim Nicholas Taleb Business, Life, Powerful, Skin in the game, State Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting. By Karl Wallenda Risk I’ve got to keep breathing. It’ll be my worst business mistake if I don’t. By Nathan Meyer Rothschild Breathing, Business, Mistake, Survival Venus favors the bold. By Ovid Daring, Risk You May Also Like from Nassim Nicholas Taleb You cannot separate knowledge from contact with the ground. By Nassim Nicholas Taleb Knowledge, Life, Success, Wise Those who don’t take risks should never be involved in making decisions. By Nassim Nicholas Taleb Decisiveness, Leadership, Risk For all it takes is for my paranoia to be right once, and it saves my life. By Nassim Nicholas Taleb Life, Risk, Wise Are visual deceits any different from leading someone to believe in Santa Claus, if it enhances his or her holiday aesthetic experience? By Nassim Nicholas Taleb Aesthetics, holiday, Santa Claus The villainous takes the short road, virtue the longer one. Cutting corners is dishonest. By Nassim Nicholas Taleb Honesty, Life Not everything that happens happens for a reason, but everything that survives survives. By Nassim Nicholas Taleb Life, Wisdom, Wise
Do the thing you are afraid to do, and the death of fear is certain. By Ralph Waldo Emerson Courage, Empowering, Failure, Fear
Skin in the game prevents systems from rotting. By Nassim Nicholas Taleb Business, Life, Powerful, Skin in the game, State
I’ve got to keep breathing. It’ll be my worst business mistake if I don’t. By Nathan Meyer Rothschild Breathing, Business, Mistake, Survival
You cannot separate knowledge from contact with the ground. By Nassim Nicholas Taleb Knowledge, Life, Success, Wise
Those who don’t take risks should never be involved in making decisions. By Nassim Nicholas Taleb Decisiveness, Leadership, Risk
For all it takes is for my paranoia to be right once, and it saves my life. By Nassim Nicholas Taleb Life, Risk, Wise
Are visual deceits any different from leading someone to believe in Santa Claus, if it enhances his or her holiday aesthetic experience? By Nassim Nicholas Taleb Aesthetics, holiday, Santa Claus
The villainous takes the short road, virtue the longer one. Cutting corners is dishonest. By Nassim Nicholas Taleb Honesty, Life
Not everything that happens happens for a reason, but everything that survives survives. By Nassim Nicholas Taleb Life, Wisdom, Wise
