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Reason for being
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
It is really hard to make something easy.
No one is coming to save you.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Don't just do something, stand there.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Distraction is dilution.
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.
Creativity before productivity.
Value is subjective.
Learning.
Shoot.
No great thing is created suddenly.
Slow down.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
Done is better than perfect.
More before better.
Knowing vs. understanding.
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
Distraction.
Switching costs.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
Chronos, Kairos.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
More ≠ more.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
Everyone, Someone.
Realize.
You are what you think you are.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
You are here.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
Hierarchy.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Truth
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
Equity unites, politics divides.
