Skin in the Game

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Published date: 2017

Category: Philosophy



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Index Topics & Notes

To be, or to seem?

"Look it. Would you rather be the world’s greatest lover, but have everyone think you’re the world’s worst lover? Or would you rather be the world’s worst lover but have everyone think you’re the world’s greatest lover?"

- Charlie Munger

Reference: Cicero, Sallust, Machiavelli each were proponents of "show rather than be."