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The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
Don't just do something, stand there.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
80:20
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
You are here.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Switching costs.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
Truth, Perception
Well done is better than well said.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
Failure = feedback.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
Resistance lifts.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
Value is subjective.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
More before better.
Experience.
Labor, leverage.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
The obstacle is the way.
No great thing is created suddenly.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Building vs. betting.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Hare & tortoise.
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.
Truth
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
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.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
It is really hard to make something easy.
Builder, investor, trader.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
