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Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Hare & tortoise.
Map ≠ Territory
Knowing vs. understanding.
Everyone, Someone.
Failure = feedback.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
Creativity before productivity.
Building vs. betting.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Banks vs. Blockchains
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
The Overthinker.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
Process vs. plan.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
More moves and less chat.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Cover, story.
Switching costs.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
Realize.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
Hierarchy.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
It took me years to play like myself.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
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.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
You are here.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
Builder, investor, trader.
80:20
Distraction.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
Comfort vs. pain.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
Each man believes only his experience.
View reading as an investment.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Think of many things; do one.
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
Labor, leverage.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
Slow down.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
Truth, trend.
