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If it looks simple, it was hard.
Creativity before productivity.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
You are what you think you are.
Hierarchy.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Experience is up only.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Said, done.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
Appreciation.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
Cover, story.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
It took me years to play like myself.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
Numbers obscure nuance.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
Distraction.
More ≠ more.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
Switching costs.
Talk is cheap.
Truth, trend.
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.
Vision
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
Builder, investor, trader.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
Everyone, Someone.
Done is better than perfect.
The obstacle is the way.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
+2 vs. x2
You are here.
Slow down.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
Truth, Perception
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
The giver is the recipient.
Experience.
Distraction is dilution.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
Don't just do something, stand there.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
