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Everyone, Someone.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Vision
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
Appreciation.
Hierarchy.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
Truth, Perception
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.
Distraction is dilution.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
It is really hard to make something easy.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
Movement, action.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Don't just do something, stand there.
Truth, trend.
Builder, investor, trader.
Failure = feedback.
It's all relative.
No great thing is created suddenly.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
Numbers obscure nuance.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
Truth
You are here.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
You are what you think you are.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Shoot.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
View reading as an investment.
Reason for being
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
The first step is the steepest.
Work vs. Luck
Process vs. plan.
Perspective.
Most people are out of touch with reality because they confuse the world as it is, with the world as they think about it, and talk about it, and describe it.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
More ≠ more.
+2 vs. x2
Equity unites, politics divides.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
