# Quote — Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game

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

- 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: 185
- 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/if-your-private

## 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)

> What we saw worldwide from 2014 to 2018, from India to the U.K. to the U.S., was a rebellion against the inner circle of no-skin-in-the-game policymaking "clerks" and journalists-insiders, that class of paternalistic semi-intellectual experts with some Ivy League, Oxford-Cambridge or similar label-driven education who are telling the rest of us 1) what to do, 2) what to eat, 3) how to speak, 4) how to think, and… 5) whom to vote for.

p. 123 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nassim-nicholas-taleb/skin-in-the-game/what-we-saw.md)