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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