“So let me finish this book with a (long) maxim, via negativa style:
No muscles without strength / friendship without trust / opinion without consequence / change without aesthetics / age without values / life without effort / water without thirst / food without nourishment / love without sacrifice / power without fairness / facts without rigor / statistics without logic / mathematics without proof / teaching without experience / politeness without warmth / values without embodiment / degrees without erudition / militarism without fortitude / progress without civilization / friendship without investment / virtue without risk / probability without ergodicity / wealth without exposure / complication without depth / fluency without content / decision without asymmetry / science without skepticism / religion without tolerance, and, most of all:
nothing without skin in the game.”
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game