# Quote — Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game

> You can be an intellectual yet still be an idiot. 'Educated philistines' have been wrong on everything from Stalinism to Iraq to low-carb diets.

- 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)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/nassim-nicholas-taleb/skin-in-the-game/you-can-be-an-intellectual

## 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)