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Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Builder, investor, trader.
It is really hard to make something easy.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Perspective.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Distraction.
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.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Distraction, focus.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
Truth, Perception
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Slow down.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
Don't just do something, stand there.
You are what you think you are.
Appreciation.
Said, done.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
More ≠ more.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Vision
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
Work vs. Luck
You are here.
Process vs. plan.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
Each man believes only his experience.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
Failure = feedback.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Map ≠ Territory
View reading as an investment.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
Reason for being
No, it took me my whole life.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
Truth.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
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.
Switching costs.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
Value is subjective.
