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You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
You are here.
Cover, story.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
Value is subjective.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
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.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Movement, action.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
Comfort vs. pain.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
It is really hard to make something easy.
Hare & tortoise.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Distraction, focus.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Distraction.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
The obstacle is the way.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
Switching costs.
Creativity before productivity.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Done is better than perfect.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
Work vs. Luck
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Builder, investor, trader.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
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.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Generalist, specialist.
Hours vs. Iterations
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Vision
Do less, do more.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
The first step is the steepest.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
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.
Each man believes only his experience.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
Banks vs. Blockchains
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
