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Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Failure = feedback.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
More before better.
Map ≠ Territory
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
Numbers obscure nuance.
Knowing vs. understanding.
Everyone, Someone.
Each man believes only his experience.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
It took me years to play like myself.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
Slow down.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
Value is subjective.
Builder, investor, trader.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
Don't just do something, stand there.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
No one is coming to save you.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Work vs. Luck
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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 fool is always getting ready to live.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
Perspective.
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 flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
Distraction, focus.
Truth, trend.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
The Overthinker.
Process vs. plan.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
Learning.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
Distraction.
Distraction is dilution.
Mindset vs. Mind set
Truth.
It is really hard to make something easy.
