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Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
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.
Value is subjective.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
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.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
Map ≠ Territory
Labor, leverage.
Truth
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
The first step is the steepest.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Numbers obscure nuance.
The obstacle is the way.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
It took me years to play like myself.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
More moves and less chat.
Builder, investor, trader.
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.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
Truth, trend.
Well done is better than well said.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
Appreciation.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
Alan Watts
Talk is cheap.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
Work vs. Luck
Hierarchy.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
Think of many things; do one.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
Vision
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Experience is up only.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
Resistance lifts.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Building vs. betting.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
