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You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
More ≠ more.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
Perspective.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
View reading as an investment.
Work vs. Luck
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
Peace begins when expectation ends.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
Distraction.
Builder, investor, trader.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
Each man believes only his experience.
Everyone, Someone.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
Distraction, focus.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Vision
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
It took me years to play like myself.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
Hare & tortoise.
Truth, trend.
The giver is the recipient.
Generalist, specialist.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
The obstacle is the way.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
You are what you think you are.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Value is subjective.
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
Slow down.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
Done is better than perfect.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
Learning.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
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.
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
Reason for being
Building vs. betting.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
No, it took me my whole life.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
+2 vs. x2
We may define therapy as a search for value.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
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.
Think of many things; do one.
