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Everyone, Someone.
Done is better than perfect.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
Appreciation.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Each man believes only his experience.
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.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
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.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
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
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
Mindset vs. Mind set
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Hours vs. Iterations
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
Hare & tortoise.
Experience is up only.
Generalist, specialist.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
Cover, story.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Movement, action.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Comfort vs. pain.
Distraction is dilution.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
The obstacle is the way.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Hierarchy.
More before better.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
