Never take an advice from a salesman, or any advice that benefits the advice giver. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

BONUS - 5 More Text-Only Taleb Quotes that you enjoyed:

- "It is a sign of weakness to avoid showing signs of weakness."

- "It is said that the best horses lose when they compete with slower ones and win against better rivals. Undercompensation from the absence of a stressor,inverse hormesis, absence of challenge, degrades the best of the best."

- "A prostitute who sells her body (temporarily) is vastly more honorable than someone who sells his opinion for promotion or job tenure."

- "When people call you intelligent it is almost always because they agree with you."

- "The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything."

The only people who think that real world experience doesn't matters are those who never had real world experience.

Anyone voicing a forecast or expressing an opinion without something at risk has some element of phoniness. Unless he risks going down with the ship this would be like watching an adventure movie.