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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.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
More before better.
Hierarchy.
Think of many things; do one.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
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.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
Reason for being
Thought, said, heard, understood.
Numbers obscure nuance.
Talk is cheap.
Map ≠ Territory
Experience is up only.
Truth, trend.
Truth.
Equity unites, politics divides.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Work vs. Luck
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Perspective.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Done is better than perfect.
Banks vs. Blockchains
View reading as an investment.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
More ≠ more.
No, it took me my whole life.
It took me years to play like myself.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
80:20
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Value is subjective.
Hare & tortoise.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
Switching costs.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
Experience.
No one is coming to save you.
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.
+2 vs. x2
Builder, investor, trader.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
Cover, story.
The giver is the recipient.
Process vs. plan.
