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Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
The obstacle is the way.
Fear is the mind-killer.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Experience is up only.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Alan Watts
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Reason for being
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
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.
Well done is better than well said.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Switching costs.
Creativity before productivity.
No great thing is created suddenly.
Builder, investor, trader.
Numbers obscure nuance.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Chronos, Kairos.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
Experience.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Distraction.
Talk is cheap.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
View reading as an investment.
Truth, Perception
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
The first step is the steepest.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
Movement, action.
Generalist, specialist.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
You are what you think you are.
Done is better than perfect.
Distraction, focus.
