# Quote — Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game

> [I]t is about distortions of symmetry and reciprocity in life: If you have the rewards, you must also get some of the risks, not let others pay the price for your mistakes. ...If you give an opinion and someone follows it, you are morally obligated to be, yourself, exposed to its consequences.

- Author: [Nassim Nicholas Taleb](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nassim-nicholas-taleb.md)
- Book: [Skin in the Game](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nassim-nicholas-taleb/skin-in-the-game.md)
- Page: 4
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nassim_Nicholas_Taleb#Skin_in_the_Game_(2018)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/nassim-nicholas-taleb/skin-in-the-game/i-t-is-about

## More from this book

> People who are bred, selected, and compensated to find complicated solutions do not have an incentive to implement simplified ones.

p. 162 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nassim-nicholas-taleb/skin-in-the-game/people-who-are.md)

> Evidence of submission is displayed by the employee’s going through years depriving himself of his personal freedom for nine hours every day, his ritualistic and punctual arrival at an office, his denying himself his own schedule, and his not having beaten up anyone on the way back home after a bad day. He is an obedient, housebroken dog.

p. 98 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nassim-nicholas-taleb/skin-in-the-game/evidence-of-submission.md)

> If your private life conflicts with your intellectual opinion, it cancels your intellectual ideas, not your private life.

p. 185 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nassim-nicholas-taleb/skin-in-the-game/if-your-private.md)