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If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Reason for being
Work vs. Luck
Distraction, focus.
Creativity before productivity.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
Think of many things; do one.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
Each man believes only his experience.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Builder, investor, trader.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
More before better.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
Slow down.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
Hare & tortoise.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
Shoot.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
Value is subjective.
No one is coming to save you.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
Truth
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
Resistance lifts.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
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.
Labor, leverage.
Perspective.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
zero-sum, infinite-sum
Banks vs. Blockchains
The Overthinker.
Experience is up only.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
More moves and less chat.
Numbers obscure nuance.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
The first step is the steepest.
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
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.
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.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
