No compensation is worth the feeling of shame. Nassim Nicholas Taleb Advice, Honesty, Money, Success, Wise You May Also Like Mere moneymaking has never been my goal. By JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER Money There is no top. There are always further heights to reach. By Jascha Heifetz Inspirational, Motivational, Success Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one. By Benjamin Franklin Money Use the talents you possess—for the woods would be silent if no birds sang but the best. By Henry Jackson van Dyke Advice, Empowering, Motivational, Talent, Uplifting You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him. By Booker T. Washington Advice, Enemies, Short, Success, Wise nn By RUSSELL EDSON Advice, Empowering, Life You May Also Like from Nassim Nicholas Taleb What is rational is that which allows for survival. By Nassim Nicholas Taleb Life, Wisdom, Wise Specialization comes with side effects, one of which is separating labor from the fruits of labor. By Nassim Nicholas Taleb Specialization, Work People who are not morally independent tend to fit ethics to their profession, rather than find a profession that fits their ethics. By Nassim Nicholas Taleb Ethics, Life, Morality, Profession People who are bred, selected, and compensated to find complicated solutions do not have an incentive to implement simplified ones. By Nassim Nicholas Taleb Bureaucracy, Business, State, Success, Wise In a strategy that entails ruin, benefits never offset risks of ruin. By Nassim Nicholas Taleb Life, Risk, Wise People are no longer owned by a company but by something worse: the idea that they need to be employable. By Nassim Nicholas Taleb Business, Life, Meaningful, Powerful, Work
There is no top. There are always further heights to reach. By Jascha Heifetz Inspirational, Motivational, Success
Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one. By Benjamin Franklin Money
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You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him. By Booker T. Washington Advice, Enemies, Short, Success, Wise
Specialization comes with side effects, one of which is separating labor from the fruits of labor. By Nassim Nicholas Taleb Specialization, Work
People who are not morally independent tend to fit ethics to their profession, rather than find a profession that fits their ethics. By Nassim Nicholas Taleb Ethics, Life, Morality, Profession
People who are bred, selected, and compensated to find complicated solutions do not have an incentive to implement simplified ones. By Nassim Nicholas Taleb Bureaucracy, Business, State, Success, Wise
In a strategy that entails ruin, benefits never offset risks of ruin. By Nassim Nicholas Taleb Life, Risk, Wise
People are no longer owned by a company but by something worse: the idea that they need to be employable. By Nassim Nicholas Taleb Business, Life, Meaningful, Powerful, Work
