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The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
The giver is the recipient.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
Done is better than perfect.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
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.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
Experience is up only.
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.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
Builder, investor, trader.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Fear is the mind-killer.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
Distraction.
It is really hard to make something easy.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
View reading as an investment.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Map ≠ Territory
Bull, Bear, Builder.
Switching costs.
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
Hare & tortoise.
Mindset vs. Mind set
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
Each man believes only his experience.
Everyone, Someone.
Shoot.
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.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
Failure = feedback.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
Hours vs. Iterations
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
Resistance lifts.
Building vs. betting.
Truth
Process vs. plan.
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.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Learning.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
