Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder (Incerto, #4)

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

When you don’t have debt you don’t care about your reputation in economics circles—and somehow it is only when you don’t care about your reputation that you tend to have a good one. Just as in matters of seduction, people lend the most to those who need them the least.

A man is honorable in proportion to the personal risks he takes for his opinion—in other words, the amount of downside he is exposed to.