168 originals
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
More before better.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Building vs. betting.
Cover, story.
Hare & tortoise.
Failure = feedback.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Hierarchy.
80:20
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
No one is coming to save you.
More ≠ more.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
Said, done.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Mindset vs. Mind set
Labor, leverage.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
Reason for being
Appreciation.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
Chronos, Kairos.
Builder, investor, trader.
Distraction.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Work vs. Luck
Perspective.
Distraction is dilution.
Resistance lifts.
Truth.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
You are here.
Comfort vs. pain.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
Process vs. plan.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
When you feel like giving up is precisely the point everybody else gives up. So it’s at that point that you must put in extra effort.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
Truth, trend.
Each man believes only his experience.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
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.
Truth
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
