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The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
Builder, investor, trader.
Experience.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Done is better than perfect.
No great thing is created suddenly.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
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.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Appreciation.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
More ≠ more.
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.
More before better.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
Switching costs.
Labor, leverage.
Experience is up only.
It took me years to play like myself.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
Cover, story.
Realize.
The first step is the steepest.
No one is coming to save you.
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
Map ≠ Territory
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
It is really hard to make something easy.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Truth, Perception
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
Process vs. plan.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
Creativity before productivity.
Chronos, Kairos.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
Perspective.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
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.
It's all relative.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
