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Creativity before productivity.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
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.
More moves and less chat.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
You are what you think you are.
Builder, investor, trader.
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
View reading as an investment.
Distraction.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
It took me years to play like myself.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
Slow down.
No one is coming to save you.
Resistance lifts.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
Reason for being
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
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.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
The obstacle is the way.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
Work vs. Luck
Hierarchy.
More before better.
Experience.
Knowing vs. understanding.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
The first step is the steepest.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
Distraction, focus.
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
Switching costs.
Labor, leverage.
Process vs. plan.
Generalist, specialist.
Done is better than perfect.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
Numbers obscure nuance.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
