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No, it took me my whole life.
Distraction.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
Each man believes only his experience.
Talk is cheap.
No great thing is created suddenly.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
Comfort vs. pain.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
Shoot.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
Said, done.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Builder, investor, trader.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
+2 vs. x2
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Distraction, focus.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
Do less, do more.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
zero-sum, infinite-sum
The giver is the recipient.
Appreciation.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
Labor, leverage.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Work vs. Luck
It is really hard to make something easy.
More ≠ more.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Truth, trend.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
Generalist, specialist.
The first step is the steepest.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
Experience.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
Hours vs. Iterations
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
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