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If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
Comfort vs. pain.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Distraction, focus.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
Hierarchy.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
It is really hard to make something easy.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
Value is subjective.
Talk is cheap.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
Truth, Perception
The obstacle is the way.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
More moves and less chat.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
Done is better than perfect.
Generalist, specialist.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
Everyone, Someone.
Truth.
Hours vs. Iterations
You are here.
Appreciation.
80:20
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
Think of many things; do one.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Banks vs. Blockchains
Chronos, Kairos.
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.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
Labor, leverage.
Vision
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.