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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
View reading as an investment.
Everyone, Someone.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
More before better.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
Numbers obscure nuance.
Learning.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
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.
Hours vs. Iterations
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
Hare & tortoise.
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.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Appreciation.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
Builder, investor, trader.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
No, it took me my whole life.
No one is coming to save you.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Each man believes only his experience.
Truth, Perception
Do less, do more.
Reason for being
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
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.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
The giver is the recipient.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
Map ≠ Territory
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
Talk is cheap.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
Perspective.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
Don't just do something, stand there.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
More ≠ more.
Creativity before productivity.
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 seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
The first step is the steepest.
