Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric.
Nassim Nicholas TalebPeople are much less interested in what you are trying to show them than what you are trying to hide.
Nassim Nicholas TalebIf you are in banking and lending, surprise outcomes are likely to be negative for you.
Nassim Nicholas TalebYou will be civilized on the day you can spend a long period doing nothing, learning nothing, and improving nothing, without feeling the slightest amount of guilt.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb