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It is really hard to make something easy.
Cover, story.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
Creativity before productivity.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
Perspective.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Hierarchy.
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.
You are here.
Well done is better than well said.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
Distraction.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
The giver is the recipient.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
Work vs. Luck
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
Chronos, Kairos.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Distraction is dilution.
No great thing is created suddenly.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Appreciation.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Movement, action.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
Truth, trend.
+2 vs. x2
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
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.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
Slow down.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
Distraction, focus.
Numbers obscure nuance.
The first step is the steepest.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
Builder, investor, trader.
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.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
More ≠ more.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
View reading as an investment.
Don't just do something, stand there.
