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Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
Creativity before productivity.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
Map ≠ Territory
Banks vs. Blockchains
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Don't just do something, stand there.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
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.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
Generalist, specialist.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Truth.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
Everyone, Someone.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Experience.
Building vs. betting.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Numbers obscure nuance.
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
Mindset vs. Mind set
More before better.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
Builder, investor, trader.
Chronos, Kairos.
Work vs. Luck
Talk is cheap.
Done is better than perfect.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
Labor, leverage.
Realize.
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.
Truth
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Slow down.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
It took me years to play like myself.
Resistance lifts.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
