168 originals
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Each man believes only his experience.
Appreciation.
Comfort vs. pain.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Distraction, focus.
Equity unites, politics divides.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Distraction.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Builder, investor, trader.
Said, done.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Hierarchy.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
You are here.
More ≠ more.
Learning.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
Most people are out of touch with reality because they confuse the world as it is, with the world as they think about it, and talk about it, and describe it.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
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.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
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 you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
Slow down.
Labor, leverage.
Truth, trend.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
Chronos, Kairos.
View reading as an investment.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Switching costs.
You are what you think you are.
Perspective.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
Don't just do something, stand there.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
Work vs. Luck
Cover, story.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Process vs. plan.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
Truth, Perception
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
It took me years to play like myself.