168 originals
Perspective.
Labor, leverage.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
More ≠ more.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
Truth, trend.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
Mindset vs. Mind set
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
The world will try and tell you who you are, and you have to tell yourself who you are. There's this ongoing battle, and somehow there needs to be a reconciliation between the two.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
Chronos, Kairos.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Shoot.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
Reason for being
Building vs. betting.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
80:20
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Distraction is dilution.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
Vision
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
Said, done.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
Do less, do more.
Distraction, focus.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
Hierarchy.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
The first step is the steepest.
You try to do the best with what you've got and ignore everything else. That's why horses get blinders in horse racing: You look at the horse next to you, and you lose a step.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
No great thing is created suddenly.
More before better.
Learning.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
Map ≠ Territory
Everyone, Someone.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
Well done is better than well said.
