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Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
No one is coming to save you.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
More ≠ more.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Cover, story.
Movement, action.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Hierarchy.
Appreciation.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
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.
Truth.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
It is really hard to make something easy.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
Work vs. Luck
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Building vs. betting.
The obstacle is the way.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
80:20
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.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
Experience.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
Process vs. plan.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
NFTs, explained.
Labor, leverage.
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
Done is better than perfect.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
Equity unites, politics divides.
Realize.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
Generalist, specialist.
Banks vs. Blockchains