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Builder, investor, trader.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
Peace begins when expectation ends.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
Process vs. plan.
Appreciation.
Realize.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
Numbers obscure nuance.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
Distraction is dilution.
Truth
Comfort vs. pain.
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.
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.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Building vs. betting.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
Creativity before productivity.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Said, done.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
No great thing is created suddenly.
Truth, Perception
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.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
Fear is the mind-killer.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
Experience is up only.
Experience.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
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.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
Map ≠ Territory
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
