168 originals
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
Vision
Hours vs. Iterations
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
View reading as an investment.
Slow down.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
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.
Process vs. plan.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
Truth.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
Perspective.
Movement, action.
Hare & tortoise.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
Failure = feedback.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
Do less, do more.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
Switching costs.
Creativity before productivity.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
Each man believes only his experience.
80:20
Peace begins when expectation ends.
More ≠ more.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
Experience is up only.
Truth, Perception
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
The giver is the recipient.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
It took me years to play like myself.
Banks vs. Blockchains
Realize.
Truth, trend.
No, it took me my whole life.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Done is better than perfect.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
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 shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
