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The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
Do less, do more.
Equity unites, politics divides.
Think of many things; do one.
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.
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
Vision
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
Done is better than perfect.
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
Map ≠ Territory
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
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.
View reading as an investment.
Each man believes only his experience.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
No one is coming to save you.
Creativity before productivity.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
Well done is better than well said.
Failure = feedback.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
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.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
Experience is up only.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Distraction is dilution.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
No great thing is created suddenly.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
The first step is the steepest.
It took me years to play like myself.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Cover, story.
Don't just do something, stand there.
Learning.
Numbers obscure nuance.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Mindset vs. Mind set
When you feel like giving up is precisely the point everybody else gives up. So it’s at that point that you must put in extra effort.
Shoot.
Hierarchy.
Truth.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
+2 vs. x2
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.