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We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
It took me years to play like myself.
Hare & tortoise.
You are what you think you are.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
Vision
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
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.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
Generalist, specialist.
Reason for being
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
Everyone, Someone.
Distraction is dilution.
No great thing is created suddenly.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
Knowing vs. understanding.
80:20
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
More before better.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
More ≠ more.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
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.
Don't just do something, stand there.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
Experience.
Resistance lifts.
Value is subjective.
Map ≠ Territory
Distraction.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
No one is coming to save you.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
Cover, story.
Learning.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
Shoot.
Labor, leverage.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
You are here.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
