Absence Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric.” quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb — Download Open image

“Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric.”

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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