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No one is coming to save you.
Do less, do more.
Generalist, specialist.
Work vs. Luck
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
It is really hard to make something easy.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Hare & tortoise.
No great thing is created suddenly.
More ≠ more.
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
Vision
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.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
You are what you think you are.
Said, done.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
Mindset vs. Mind set
Building vs. betting.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
Distraction is dilution.
Truth
Equity unites, politics divides.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
The obstacle is the way.
Shoot.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
No, it took me my whole life.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
Everyone, Someone.
Each man believes only his experience.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
Map ≠ Territory
Don't just do something, stand there.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
Talk is cheap.
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.
Perspective.
+2 vs. x2
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
Process vs. plan.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
Hierarchy.
The first step is the steepest.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
More before better.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
Bull, Bear, Builder.
