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Generalist, specialist.
Hare & tortoise.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
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're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
Switching costs.
Hierarchy.
Appreciation.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
More ≠ more.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
Value is subjective.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
Hours vs. Iterations
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
It is really hard to make something easy.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
zero-sum, infinite-sum
It took me years to play like myself.
Everyone, Someone.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
The first step is the steepest.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
Builder, investor, trader.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Slow down.
Distraction.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
No one is coming to save you.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
Knowing vs. understanding.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
Vision
80:20
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Process vs. plan.
Numbers obscure nuance.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Equity unites, politics divides.
Reason for being
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
Distraction is dilution.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
No, it took me my whole life.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
