168 originals
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.
Truth, Perception
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
Do less, do more.
Truth, trend.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
Well done is better than well said.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
Done is better than perfect.
Builder, investor, trader.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
Chronos, Kairos.
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.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
Each man believes only his experience.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
Talk is cheap.
More ≠ more.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
No great thing is created suddenly.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
Work vs. Luck
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
Alan Watts
Experience.
Labor, leverage.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
The first step is the steepest.
Comfort vs. pain.
Hours vs. Iterations
Said, done.
The giver is the recipient.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Process vs. plan.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Slow down.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
It is really hard to make something easy.
View reading as an investment.
Fear is the mind-killer.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
Shoot.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
