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You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
Alan Watts
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
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.
Distraction, focus.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
80:20
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.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
Truth.
Knowing vs. understanding.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
Do less, do more.
Fear is the mind-killer.
The giver is the recipient.
Said, done.
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
Creativity before productivity.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
Talk is cheap.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Chronos, Kairos.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
Banks vs. Blockchains
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
More ≠ more.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
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.
Truth, Perception
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
Distraction.
Building vs. betting.
Equity unites, politics divides.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
Done is better than perfect.
You are what you think you are.
Labor, leverage.
Belief is a skill that requires practice.