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Knowing vs. understanding.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Experience is up only.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
Distraction.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Perspective.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
Think of many things; do one.
Switching costs.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
Reason for being
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Everyone, Someone.
Talk is cheap.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Each man believes only his experience.
Slow down.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
Distraction, focus.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
More before better.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
Resistance lifts.
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.
The first step is the steepest.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
It is really hard to make something easy.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Done is better than perfect.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
No one is coming to save you.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
No, it took me my whole life.
Truth
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
Value is subjective.
Builder, investor, trader.
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.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
