The Best Thing You Can Be Is Not Durable

People who are really successful have a what i like to call heads, i win, tails, you lose Strategy. If the coalition had beaten napoleon, rothschild would have continued to supply them and make money off their war effort. Instead, rotchild got to manage wilhelm's estate and get money that way. So it was like he found a way that he could win no matter the outcome. The writer and investor nacim taleb calls this being anti fragile. He's prepared for every eventuality. And things that would bankrupt a lesser banker end up making rothschild even richer.