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Think of many things; do one.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
When you feel like giving up is precisely the point everybody else gives up. So it’s at that point that you must put in extra effort.
Truth.
Hare & tortoise.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
Realize.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
More moves and less chat.
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
Building vs. betting.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
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.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
Experience is up only.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
The obstacle is the way.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
Banks vs. Blockchains
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
Done is better than perfect.
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.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
Hours vs. Iterations
Knowing vs. understanding.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Generalist, specialist.
Comfort vs. pain.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
Hierarchy.
No one is coming to save you.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
Labor, leverage.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
Work vs. Luck
Well done is better than well said.
Value is subjective.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
Chronos, Kairos.
It is really hard to make something easy.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
Talk is cheap.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
