No compensation is worth the feeling of shame. Nassim Nicholas Taleb Advice, Honesty, Money, Success, Wise You May Also Like The successful person is the individual who forms the habit of doing what the failing person doesn’t like to do. By DONALD RIGGS Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Strong, Success You may not be responsible for getting knocked down, but you’re certainly responsible for getting back up. By REVEREND JESSE JACKSON Failure, Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Success The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone’s neurosis. By William Styron Creativity, Psychology, Success, Writing Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex: you thought of nothing else if you didn’t have it and thought of other things if you did. By James Baldwin Funny, Money, Sex I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself. By Elon Musk Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Success, Uplifting I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface. By Stephen Sondheim Insecurity, Life, Psychology, Wise You May Also Like from Nassim Nicholas Taleb Skin-in-the-game-style symmetry, until the recent intellectualization of life, had been implicitly considered the principal rule for organized society. By Nassim Nicholas Taleb Life, Skin in the game, State To be free of conflict you need to have no friends. By Nassim Nicholas Taleb Conflict, Friendship, Meaningful, Powerful, Wise Courage (risk taking) is the highest virtue. We need entrepreneurs. By Nassim Nicholas Taleb Courage, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, 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 Survival comes first, truth, understanding, and science later. By Nassim Nicholas Taleb Life, Powerful, Science, Truth, Wise
The successful person is the individual who forms the habit of doing what the failing person doesn’t like to do. By DONALD RIGGS Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Strong, Success
You may not be responsible for getting knocked down, but you’re certainly responsible for getting back up. By REVEREND JESSE JACKSON Failure, Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Success
The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone’s neurosis. By William Styron Creativity, Psychology, Success, Writing
Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex: you thought of nothing else if you didn’t have it and thought of other things if you did. By James Baldwin Funny, Money, Sex
I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself. By Elon Musk Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Success, Uplifting
I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface. By Stephen Sondheim Insecurity, Life, Psychology, Wise
Skin-in-the-game-style symmetry, until the recent intellectualization of life, had been implicitly considered the principal rule for organized society. By Nassim Nicholas Taleb Life, Skin in the game, State
To be free of conflict you need to have no friends. By Nassim Nicholas Taleb Conflict, Friendship, Meaningful, Powerful, Wise
Courage (risk taking) is the highest virtue. We need entrepreneurs. By Nassim Nicholas Taleb Courage, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, 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
Survival comes first, truth, understanding, and science later. By Nassim Nicholas Taleb Life, Powerful, Science, Truth, Wise
