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We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
Each man believes only his experience.
The first step is the steepest.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
You are what you think you are.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
Value is subjective.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
Builder, investor, trader.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
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.
More ≠ more.
The giver is the recipient.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
Experience.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
Fear is the mind-killer.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
View reading as an investment.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
Think of many things; do one.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
Hours vs. Iterations
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
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.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
Comfort vs. pain.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
Numbers obscure nuance.
Truth, trend.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
Distraction.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
It is really hard to make something easy.
Hare & tortoise.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
No one is coming to save you.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
