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Building vs. betting.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
Each man believes only his experience.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
Said, done.
Talk is cheap.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
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.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
The first step is the steepest.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
Comfort vs. pain.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Value is subjective.
Chronos, Kairos.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Vision
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Distraction is dilution.
Creativity before productivity.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
More ≠ more.
Hierarchy.
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.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
More before better.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
Switching costs.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
Truth, Perception
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
Numbers obscure nuance.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
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