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View reading as an investment.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
Done is better than perfect.
The first step is the steepest.
Don't just do something, stand there.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
Comfort vs. pain.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Generalist, specialist.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
It is really hard to make something easy.
No great thing is created suddenly.
Talk is cheap.
Distraction.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
Builder, investor, trader.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
Hours vs. Iterations
+2 vs. x2
Labor, leverage.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Work vs. Luck
zero-sum, infinite-sum
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.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
Appreciation.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Experience is up only.
More ≠ more.
Truth, Perception
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Cover, story.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Perspective.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Experience.
Do less, do more.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
The giver is the recipient.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
