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Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
Knowing vs. understanding.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
Reason for being
Chronos, Kairos.
No one is coming to save you.
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.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
Work vs. Luck
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
Perspective.
Builder, investor, trader.
It is really hard to make something easy.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
Labor, leverage.
Said, done.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
The Overthinker.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Truth
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Each man believes only his experience.
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
Appreciation.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
Truth.
You are here.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Value is subjective.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
Slow down.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
More ≠ more.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
Process vs. plan.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
80:20
Switching costs.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
