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More before better.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
View reading as an investment.
Said, done.
More ≠ more.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Builder, investor, trader.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
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.
Hare & tortoise.
Banks vs. Blockchains
Experience is up only.
Switching costs.
More moves and less chat.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
80:20
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
Truth.
Everyone, Someone.
Chronos, Kairos.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
Done is better than perfect.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
Hours vs. Iterations
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
It is really hard to make something easy.
Knowing vs. understanding.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
Truth
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 shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
Failure = feedback.
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.
Each man believes only his experience.
Truth, Perception
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
Map ≠ Territory
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
Creativity before productivity.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
Vision
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
