168 originals
More ≠ more.
Distraction is dilution.
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.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Chronos, Kairos.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
Perspective.
Builder, investor, trader.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
Slow down.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
It is really hard to make something easy.
Creativity before productivity.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Learning.
Vision
zero-sum, infinite-sum
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
You are what you think you are.
Numbers obscure nuance.
It's all relative.
More before better.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
No one is coming to save you.
It took me years to play like myself.
Process vs. plan.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Distraction, focus.
Done is better than perfect.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
Experience is up only.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
The obstacle is the way.
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
Do less, do more.
Truth.
Hare & tortoise.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
More moves and less chat.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Value is subjective.
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.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
