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Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
Appreciation.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
Builder, investor, trader.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
Truth, trend.
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.
Experience.
Slow down.
Distraction, focus.
Each man believes only his experience.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Well done is better than well said.
Alan Watts
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
Chronos, Kairos.
Process vs. plan.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Switching costs.
Labor, leverage.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
Vision
Distraction.
Creativity before productivity.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Do less, do more.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
Learning.
Truth
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
It took me years to play like myself.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
Failure = feedback.
Building vs. betting.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
Cover, story.
