Skin in the Game - AshokBhat/investing GitHub Wiki
About
- Book: Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
- Author: Nassim Taleb
- Published on 2018
Key ideas
- Decision makers should have skin in the game - They have to pay if things go south.
Quotes/messages
- Don’t tell me what you “think,” just tell me what’s in your portfolio.
- You will never fully convince someone that he is wrong; only reality can.
- Avoid taking advice from someone who gives advice for a living, unless there is a penalty for their advice.
- If something stupid works (and makes money), it cannot be stupid
- If you do not take risks for your opinion, you are nothing.
- You don’t signal competence if you don’t take risks for it
- What matters isn’t what a person has or doesn’t have; it is what he or she is afraid of losing.
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