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Equity unites, politics divides.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
Reason for being
Done is better than perfect.
The obstacle is the way.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
Slow down.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
It is really hard to make something easy.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
Experience.
Don't just do something, stand there.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
Learning.
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
Labor, leverage.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Map ≠ Territory
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
The Overthinker.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
Numbers obscure nuance.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
Realize.
Chronos, Kairos.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
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.
Building vs. betting.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
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.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
More before better.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
No one is coming to save you.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
80:20
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
No, it took me my whole life.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
