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We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
Value is subjective.
More ≠ more.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
Switching costs.
Distraction is dilution.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Hierarchy.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
Cover, story.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
No one is coming to save you.
It is really hard to make something easy.
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.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
Banks vs. Blockchains
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
Each man believes only his experience.
Appreciation.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
Truth, trend.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
Labor, leverage.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
Movement, action.
Distraction, focus.
Equity unites, politics divides.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
View reading as an investment.
Don't just do something, stand there.
No great thing is created suddenly.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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 you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
Hare & tortoise.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
Well done is better than well said.
Said, done.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
Done is better than perfect.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
Slow down.
Vision
