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Value is subjective.
It took me years to play like myself.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
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.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
Experience.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Talk is cheap.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Creativity before productivity.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
Everyone, Someone.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
Hare & tortoise.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
Process vs. plan.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
More before better.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
Cover, story.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
Switching costs.
You are what you think you are.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
Don't just do something, stand there.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
+2 vs. x2
Distraction is dilution.
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.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
The obstacle is the way.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
Truth, Perception
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
Shoot.
Generalist, specialist.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
The giver is the recipient.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
Fear is the mind-killer.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
