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Think of many things; do one.
When you feel like giving up is precisely the point everybody else gives up. So it’s at that point that you must put in extra effort.
Each man believes only his experience.
Truth
Building vs. betting.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
Work vs. Luck
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
It's all relative.
Builder, investor, trader.
More moves and less chat.
Truth, trend.
Slow down.
Said, done.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
Hare & tortoise.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
Knowing vs. understanding.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Chronos, Kairos.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
Mindset vs. Mind set
Value is subjective.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
Distraction.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Creativity before productivity.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
Cover, story.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
More before better.
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Distraction is dilution.
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.
View reading as an investment.
The first step is the steepest.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
You are here.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
