168 originals
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
Work vs. Luck
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Everyone, Someone.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Reason for being
Switching costs.
Vision
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
Mindset vs. Mind set
It is really hard to make something easy.
Knowing vs. understanding.
Talk is cheap.
Truth, trend.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
Numbers obscure nuance.
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
The obstacle is the way.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
Process vs. plan.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
Think of many things; do one.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
Don't just do something, stand there.
Appreciation.
Said, done.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Alan Watts
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Hare & tortoise.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
No one is coming to save you.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Done is better than perfect.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
Banks vs. Blockchains
Truth
Distraction is dilution.
Distraction.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
Value is subjective.
Distraction, focus.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
It's all relative.
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.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.