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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
Done is better than perfect.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
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.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
The fool is always getting ready to live.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
You are what you think you are.
Movement, action.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
Hours vs. Iterations
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
Said, done.
Vision
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
Perspective.
Knowing vs. understanding.
Distraction.
Well done is better than well said.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Creativity before productivity.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
Resistance lifts.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
Learning.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
Labor, leverage.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
If it looks simple, it was hard.
80:20
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
The first step is the steepest.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
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
Talk is cheap.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
Truth.
No great thing is created suddenly.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
The Overthinker.
More ≠ more.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
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.
Value is subjective.
