168 originals
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Distraction is dilution.
Truth.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
Experience.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
80:20
Mindset vs. Mind set
Observer, expert, practitioner.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
Distraction, focus.
Slow down.
Creativity before productivity.
Appreciation.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
More moves and less chat.
Map ≠ Territory
You are what you think you are.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
Truth
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
Do less, do more.
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
More ≠ more.
Generalist, specialist.
The first step is the steepest.
Work vs. Luck
Reason for being
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.
Failure = feedback.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
Hierarchy.
Hare & tortoise.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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.
Don't just do something, stand there.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
Well done is better than well said.
+2 vs. x2
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
Learning.
Builder, investor, trader.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
Process vs. plan.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Realize.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
