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Experience.
Numbers obscure nuance.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
+2 vs. x2
The obstacle is the way.
Well done is better than well said.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
View reading as an investment.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
Builder, investor, trader.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
Slow down.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
Value is subjective.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
Said, done.
Distraction.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Fear is the mind-killer.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Work vs. Luck
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
Each man believes only his experience.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Creativity before productivity.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
Switching costs.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
Hare & tortoise.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
More before better.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Appreciation.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
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.
Realize.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
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.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Hierarchy.
It's all relative.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
