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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
View reading as an investment.
Work vs. Luck
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
Movement, action.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Creativity before productivity.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
Generalist, specialist.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
Truth, Perception
You are what you think you are.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
Comfort vs. pain.
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.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
80:20
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Builder, investor, trader.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
Don't just do something, stand there.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
Appreciation.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
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.
Each man believes only his experience.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
Experience is up only.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
Everyone, Someone.
Well done is better than well said.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
More moves and less chat.
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.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
It took me years to play like myself.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
