168 originals
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
Creativity before productivity.
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.
Switching costs.
Hare & tortoise.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
Think of many things; do one.
Distraction.
Distraction is dilution.
Process vs. plan.
Hours vs. Iterations
No, it took me my whole life.
Said, done.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
Learning.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
Fear is the mind-killer.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
It is really hard to make something easy.
Value is subjective.
Labor, leverage.
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.
Each man believes only his experience.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
Chronos, Kairos.
Builder, investor, trader.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
No great thing is created suddenly.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
It's all relative.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Distraction, focus.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Truth, Perception
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
Mindset vs. Mind set
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Work vs. Luck
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
No one is coming to save you.