168 originals
The first step is the steepest.
Comfort vs. pain.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Chronos, Kairos.
Work vs. Luck
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Hare & tortoise.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
Perspective.
Switching costs.
Said, done.
Vision
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
No, it took me my whole life.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
Done is better than perfect.
Creativity before productivity.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
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.
Generalist, specialist.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Cover, story.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
More ≠ more.
Knowing vs. understanding.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
Building vs. betting.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
Distraction, focus.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
It's all relative.
Distraction.
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
The obstacle is the way.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
Don't just do something, stand there.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
Realize.
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.
