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There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
You are what you think you are.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Builder, investor, trader.
Truth, Perception
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
80:20
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.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Experience.
Reason for being
Work vs. Luck
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
Value is subjective.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
Each man believes only his experience.
Everyone, Someone.
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.
No one is coming to save you.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
Mindset vs. Mind set
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
Map ≠ Territory
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
The giver is the recipient.
Distraction, focus.
Experience is up only.
Hierarchy.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
Truth, trend.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
Banks vs. Blockchains
Fear is the mind-killer.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
More ≠ more.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
Perspective.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
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.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Distraction.
Hare & tortoise.
Well done is better than well said.
