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There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Truth.
Comfort vs. pain.
Done is better than perfect.
Creativity before productivity.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
No one is coming to save you.
Equity unites, politics divides.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
Realize.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
Truth, Perception
Bull, Bear, Builder.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
You are here.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
The first step is the steepest.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
Mindset vs. Mind set
Generalist, specialist.
Each man believes only his experience.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
Failure = feedback.
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.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
No great thing is created suddenly.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
Distraction, focus.
Knowing vs. understanding.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
Value is subjective.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
Talk is cheap.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
Well done is better than well said.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
It's all relative.
Chronos, Kairos.
Builder, investor, trader.
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.
Reason for being
Building vs. betting.
Experience.
More moves and less chat.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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.
