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There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
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.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
Banks vs. Blockchains
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
More moves and less chat.
Hare & tortoise.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
Hierarchy.
Switching costs.
The obstacle is the way.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Alan Watts
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Learning.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
It's all relative.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
Distraction is dilution.
Fear is the mind-killer.
View reading as an investment.
Do less, do more.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
Comfort vs. pain.
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
You are what you think you are.
Equity unites, politics divides.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
Mindset vs. Mind set
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Everyone, Someone.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
More ≠ more.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
Don't just do something, stand there.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
Movement, action.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
No one is coming to save you.
The giver is the recipient.
Talk is cheap.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Cover, story.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
