168 originals
Building vs. betting.
Generalist, specialist.
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Truth, Perception
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
Appreciation.
Process vs. plan.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
Resistance lifts.
Perspective.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
Labor, leverage.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
Slow down.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
Creativity before productivity.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
Comfort vs. pain.
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.
Builder, investor, trader.
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.
Mindset vs. Mind set
View reading as an investment.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
Numbers obscure nuance.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
Distraction.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
Distraction is dilution.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Failure = feedback.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
Hare & tortoise.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
Reason for being
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
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.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
Done is better than perfect.
No, it took me my whole life.
Truth.
Shoot.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
