168 originals
Builder, investor, trader.
The giver is the recipient.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Distraction, focus.
Creativity before productivity.
The first step is the steepest.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
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.
Movement, action.
Learning.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Work vs. Luck
We may define therapy as a search for value.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
You are here.
Everyone, Someone.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
Experience.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
Each man believes only his experience.
It is really hard to make something easy.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
Chronos, Kairos.
Resistance lifts.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
No great thing is created suddenly.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
It's all relative.
Hare & tortoise.
+2 vs. x2
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Experience is up only.
Perspective.
Think of many things; do one.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
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.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
80:20
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
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.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
Value is subjective.
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.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Mindset vs. Mind set
