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Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Work vs. Luck
Mindset vs. Mind set
Chronos, Kairos.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
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.
Switching costs.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
Distraction is dilution.
Don't just do something, stand there.
Experience.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Everyone, Someone.
More before better.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
+2 vs. x2
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Labor, leverage.
Builder, investor, trader.
More moves and less chat.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Resistance lifts.
Talk is cheap.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
Cover, story.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
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.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
View reading as an investment.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
