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Knowing vs. understanding.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
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.
Creativity before productivity.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Numbers obscure nuance.
Done is better than perfect.
Labor, leverage.
+2 vs. x2
Distraction, focus.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Map ≠ Territory
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
More moves and less chat.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
Generalist, specialist.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
Truth, trend.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
More ≠ more.
Truth
Distraction.
Slow down.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
Think of many things; do one.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
Each man believes only his experience.
Hierarchy.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
You are what you think you are.
Alan Watts
80:20
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
Experience.
Experience is up only.
Do less, do more.
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.
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
Talk is cheap.
