168 originals
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.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
Each man believes only his experience.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
+2 vs. x2
Experience is up only.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Map ≠ Territory
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
Creativity before productivity.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Everyone, Someone.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
It is really hard to make something easy.
Builder, investor, trader.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Reason for being
Process vs. plan.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
View reading as an investment.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
Chronos, Kairos.
Value is subjective.
Comfort vs. pain.
80:20
You are what you think you are.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
Realize.
Truth, trend.
It took me years to play like myself.
No, it took me my whole life.
More before better.
More ≠ more.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
The obstacle is the way.
Distraction.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
The giver is the recipient.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
You are here.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
Truth, Perception
Truth.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
