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You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
No, it took me my whole life.
Truth.
Creativity before productivity.
Each man believes only his experience.
Chronos, Kairos.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
Reason for being
Mindset vs. Mind set
Truth, Perception
Value is subjective.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
Resistance lifts.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
No one is coming to save you.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
Hierarchy.
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.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
View reading as an investment.
Knowing vs. understanding.
Map ≠ Territory
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.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Realize.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
The first step is the steepest.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
Done is better than perfect.
More moves and less chat.
No great thing is created suddenly.
80:20
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
You are what you think you are.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
Vision
Fear is the mind-killer.
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.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
Talk is cheap.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
