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Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
Reason for being
Experience.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Labor, leverage.
Building vs. betting.
Perspective.
Each man believes only his experience.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
You are here.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Don't just do something, stand there.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
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.
Everyone, Someone.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
Truth, trend.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
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.
Said, done.
Comfort vs. pain.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
80:20
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
Creativity before productivity.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Process vs. plan.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
View reading as an investment.
Think of many things; do one.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
No one is coming to save you.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
More ≠ more.
It is really hard to make something easy.
Value is subjective.
Builder, investor, trader.
