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You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
80:20
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
Creativity before productivity.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
Experience.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
Well done is better than well said.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
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.
Numbers obscure nuance.
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
You are here.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Switching costs.
Work vs. Luck
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
The giver is the recipient.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
More moves and less chat.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
Building vs. betting.
The Overthinker.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Distraction, focus.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
Perspective.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
Done is better than perfect.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
Everyone, Someone.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Talk is cheap.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
