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Reason for being
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Truth, Perception
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.
No one is coming to save you.
Failure = feedback.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
You are what you think you are.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Experience is up only.
Value is subjective.
Map ≠ Territory
Well done is better than well said.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Everyone, Someone.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
It took me years to play like myself.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
Switching costs.
View reading as an investment.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Creativity before productivity.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
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.
Mindset vs. Mind set
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
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.
Comfort vs. pain.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
Equity unites, politics divides.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
Fear is the mind-killer.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
Builder, investor, trader.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
Truth.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Do less, do more.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
Slow down.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
Building vs. betting.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
Hare & tortoise.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Said, done.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
