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Belief is a skill that requires practice.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
Truth, Perception
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
It is really hard to make something easy.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
Labor, leverage.
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.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
Distraction, focus.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Value is subjective.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Do less, do more.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
Perspective.
View reading as an investment.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
Cover, story.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
Distraction is dilution.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
Mindset vs. Mind set
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Generalist, specialist.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Shoot.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
Think of many things; do one.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
Reason for being
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Movement, action.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
Said, done.
Slow down.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
More moves and less chat.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
Building vs. betting.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
