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Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
Truth
Comfort vs. pain.
Distraction is dilution.
Creativity before productivity.
More before better.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
Chronos, Kairos.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Perspective.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
Map ≠ Territory
Each man believes only his experience.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
You are here.
Reason for being
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
Truth.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
The Overthinker.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
No one is coming to save you.
Builder, investor, trader.
Knowing vs. understanding.
Numbers obscure nuance.
Talk is cheap.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
Vision
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
Well done is better than well said.
It took me years to play like myself.
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.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
Done is better than perfect.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
Think of many things; do one.
Distraction, focus.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
It is really hard to make something easy.
80:20
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
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.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
Equity unites, politics divides.
Don't just do something, stand there.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
