168 originals
Building vs. betting.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
Everyone, Someone.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
Value is subjective.
Creativity before productivity.
It's all relative.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
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.
You are what you think you are.
Realize.
Labor, leverage.
Map ≠ Territory
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Perspective.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
Fear is the mind-killer.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
Each man believes only his experience.
Builder, investor, trader.
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.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
Truth, trend.
Think of many things; do one.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
Process vs. plan.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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.
More before better.
Don't just do something, stand there.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
No one is coming to save you.
Hare & tortoise.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
Chronos, Kairos.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
Truth
Do less, do more.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Work vs. Luck
Distraction.
You are here.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.