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Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
View reading as an investment.
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.
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
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.
Labor, leverage.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
Process vs. plan.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
Comfort vs. pain.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Switching costs.
Learning.
+2 vs. x2
Creativity before productivity.
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.
You are here.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
Done is better than perfect.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
Realize.
Movement, action.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
No one is coming to save you.
Said, done.
Experience is up only.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
More before better.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
It took me years to play like myself.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Builder, investor, trader.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
Distraction.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
Truth
Don't just do something, stand there.
Shoot.
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
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.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
