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If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
The obstacle is the way.
Perspective.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
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.
Each man believes only his experience.
Banks vs. Blockchains
Distraction.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
Knowing vs. understanding.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
When you feel like giving up is precisely the point everybody else gives up. So it’s at that point that you must put in extra effort.
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
Distraction is dilution.
Reason for being
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Truth, Perception
Said, done.
Numbers obscure nuance.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
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.
Building vs. betting.
No great thing is created suddenly.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
Vision
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
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.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
Experience.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Work vs. Luck
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
+2 vs. x2
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
Truth, trend.
Resistance lifts.
Learning.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
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.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Cover, story.
Truth
The first step is the steepest.
