Naval Ravikant
American entrepreneur and investor (born 1974)
Naval Ravikant is an Indian-born American entrepreneur and investor. He is the co-founder and chairman of AngelList, a platform for startups, investors, and job seekers.
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What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
Technology democratizes consumption but consolidates production. The best person in the world at anything gets to do it for everyone.
Solve via iteration. Then get paid via repetition.
Become the best in the world at what you do, keep redefining what you do until this is true.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
View reading as an investment.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
Forget rich versus poor, white-collar versus blue. It’s now leveraged versus unleveraged.
Optimistic contrarians are the rarest breed.
The more you know, the less you diversify.
Inspiration is perishable, act on it immediately.
The robot army is already here—code lets you tell them what to do.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
99% of all effort is wasted.
Don’t debate people in the media when you can debate them in the marketplace.
Wealth is a positive sum game and status is a zero-sum game.
Escape competition through authenticity.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
Impatience with actions, patience with results.
Earn with your mind, not your time.