If you understand nothing about the problem (like D.C. pundits) and have no skin in the game, then everything is seen through the prism of geopolitics. Nassim Nicholas Taleb Geopolitics, Risk, Skin in the game, Wise You May Also Like It is difficult to keep quiet if you have nothing to do. By Arthur Schopenhauer Achievement, Funny, Wise One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning. By James Russell Lowell Advice, Experience, Life, Short, Wise Habit is stronger than reason. By George Santayana Addiction, Habits, Reason, Short, Wise If you’re afraid to die, you will not be able to live. By James Baldwin Death, Life, Wise If we stop defining each other by what we are not and start defining ourselves by what we are, we can all be freer. By Emma Watson Free, Wise Don’t fight a battle if you don’t gain anything by winning. By Gen. George S. Patton Jr. Priorities, Win, Wise You May Also Like from Nassim Nicholas Taleb What works cannot be irrational. If something stupid works (and makes money), it cannot be stupid. By Nassim Nicholas Taleb Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Success, Wise If your private life conflicts with your intellectual opinion, it cancels your intellectual ideas, not your private life. By Nassim Nicholas Taleb Life, Meaningful, Thoughtful, Wise Beware of the person who gives advice, telling you that a certain action on your part is “good for you” while it is also good for him, while the harm to you doesn’t directly affect him. By Nassim Nicholas Taleb Advice, Honesty, Life In a strategy that entails ruin, benefits never offset risks of ruin. By Nassim Nicholas Taleb Life, Risk, Wise The illusion prevails that businesses work via business plans and science via funding. By Nassim Nicholas Taleb Business, Funding, Powerful, Science, Success The villainous takes the short road, virtue the longer one. Cutting corners is dishonest. By Nassim Nicholas Taleb Honesty, Life
It is difficult to keep quiet if you have nothing to do. By Arthur Schopenhauer Achievement, Funny, Wise
One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning. By James Russell Lowell Advice, Experience, Life, Short, Wise
If we stop defining each other by what we are not and start defining ourselves by what we are, we can all be freer. By Emma Watson Free, Wise
Don’t fight a battle if you don’t gain anything by winning. By Gen. George S. Patton Jr. Priorities, Win, Wise
What works cannot be irrational. If something stupid works (and makes money), it cannot be stupid. By Nassim Nicholas Taleb Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Success, Wise
If your private life conflicts with your intellectual opinion, it cancels your intellectual ideas, not your private life. By Nassim Nicholas Taleb Life, Meaningful, Thoughtful, Wise
Beware of the person who gives advice, telling you that a certain action on your part is “good for you” while it is also good for him, while the harm to you doesn’t directly affect him. By Nassim Nicholas Taleb Advice, Honesty, Life
In a strategy that entails ruin, benefits never offset risks of ruin. By Nassim Nicholas Taleb Life, Risk, Wise
The illusion prevails that businesses work via business plans and science via funding. By Nassim Nicholas Taleb Business, Funding, Powerful, Science, Success
The villainous takes the short road, virtue the longer one. Cutting corners is dishonest. By Nassim Nicholas Taleb Honesty, Life
