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The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
More ≠ more.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
View reading as an investment.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
Comfort vs. pain.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Each man believes only his experience.
It is really hard to make something easy.
You are here.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
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.
Labor, leverage.
Distraction is dilution.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
Perspective.
Distraction, focus.
Builder, investor, trader.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
Everyone, Someone.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
Truth, Perception
You are what you think you are.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
Said, done.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Process vs. plan.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
Chronos, Kairos.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
Vision
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
No, it took me my whole life.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
Building vs. betting.
Learning.
Distraction.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
Hierarchy.
Map ≠ Territory
More moves and less chat.
Hare & tortoise.
