168 originals
The giver is the recipient.
Each man believes only his experience.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
Hours vs. Iterations
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
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.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
+2 vs. x2
Labor, leverage.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
Experience.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Equity unites, politics divides.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
It's all relative.
Fear is the mind-killer.
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.
You are what you think you are.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
Comfort vs. pain.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Switching costs.
Knowing vs. understanding.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
Creativity before productivity.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
Said, done.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
Banks vs. Blockchains
View reading as an investment.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Process vs. plan.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
Hare & tortoise.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
Reason for being
Bull, Bear, Builder.
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.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
Don't just do something, stand there.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
Numbers obscure nuance.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
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.
Talk is cheap.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
