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Knowing vs. understanding.
Do less, do more.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
Appreciation.
Reason for being
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Builder, investor, trader.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
Mindset vs. Mind set
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
It is really hard to make something easy.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
Talk is cheap.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
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.
Building vs. betting.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
Slow down.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
Switching costs.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
Learning.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
Hours vs. Iterations
Failure = feedback.
Movement, action.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Hare & tortoise.
The Overthinker.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
Creativity before productivity.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Generalist, specialist.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
Hierarchy.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
