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What you can imagine depends on what you know.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
View reading as an investment.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
The giver is the recipient.
You are here.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
Process vs. plan.
Hours vs. Iterations
Done is better than perfect.
Each man believes only his experience.
More before better.
Experience.
More moves and less chat.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Cover, story.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
Perspective.
No great thing is created suddenly.
Truth, trend.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Banks vs. Blockchains
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
Work vs. Luck
Thought, Spoken, Heard
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.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
Talk is cheap.
Experience is up only.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
Don't just do something, stand there.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
Map ≠ Territory
Hierarchy.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
Fear is the mind-killer.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
Labor, leverage.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
Well done is better than well said.
