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Banks vs. Blockchains
Labor, leverage.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
Done is better than perfect.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
Each man believes only his experience.
Builder, investor, trader.
Experience is up only.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
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.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Distraction.
View reading as an investment.
Process vs. plan.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Learning.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
Creativity before productivity.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Value is subjective.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
Distraction, focus.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
Hare & tortoise.
Hierarchy.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
The obstacle is the way.
Don't just do something, stand there.
Experience.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
Vision
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
It took me years to play like myself.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
You are what you think you are.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
Truth, Perception
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
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.
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.
Distraction is dilution.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
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.
Everyone, Someone.
No great thing is created suddenly.