If you take risks and face your fate with dignity, there is nothing you can do that makes you small. If you don't take risks, there is nothing you ca… - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

If you take risks and face your fate with dignity, there is nothing you can do that makes you small; if you don't take risks, there is nothing you can do that makes you grand, nothing.

in Arabic it is called Shhm — best translated as nonsmall. If you take risks and face your fate with dignity, there is nothing you can do that makes you small; if you don’t take risks, there is nothing you can do that makes you grand, nothing.

No author should be considered as having failed until he starts teaching others about writing.

When positive, show net, when negative, show gross.

it is only when you don’t care about your reputation that you tend to have a good one.