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It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
Work vs. Luck
Perspective.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
View reading as an investment.
Reason for being
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Equity unites, politics divides.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
Movement, action.
More before better.
Labor, leverage.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
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.
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
Bull, Bear, Builder.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
Each man believes only his experience.
Chronos, Kairos.
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.
It is really hard to make something easy.
Switching costs.
Builder, investor, trader.
Distraction.
Well done is better than well said.
You are here.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
Learning.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Truth
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
No one is coming to save you.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
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.
Done is better than perfect.
Mindset vs. Mind set
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
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.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
Resistance lifts.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
Generalist, specialist.
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
