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It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Shoot.
No one is coming to save you.
Equity unites, politics divides.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
Truth.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
Distraction, focus.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Appreciation.
Building vs. betting.
Cover, story.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Hare & tortoise.
No, it took me my whole life.
The obstacle is the way.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
It took me years to play like myself.
Realize.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
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.
Comfort vs. pain.
Mindset vs. Mind set
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
Labor, leverage.
Value is subjective.
The giver is the recipient.
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.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Don't just do something, stand there.
Hierarchy.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
You are here.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
Banks vs. Blockchains
+2 vs. x2
Distraction is dilution.
Builder, investor, trader.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Process vs. plan.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
No great thing is created suddenly.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
Said, done.
