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What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
Creativity before productivity.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Truth, trend.
Value is subjective.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
The first step is the steepest.
Comfort vs. pain.
Everyone, Someone.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
Said, done.
Hare & tortoise.
Well done is better than well said.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
You are what you think you are.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
Vision
Truth, Perception
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
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.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Experience is up only.
Distraction.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
Switching costs.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Experience.
Learning.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Hours vs. Iterations
zero-sum, infinite-sum
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.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
Reason for being
It is really hard to make something easy.
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.
Done is better than perfect.
