168 originals
Building vs. betting.
More moves and less chat.
Knowing vs. understanding.
Mindset vs. Mind set
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
Distraction.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
Truth
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
It is really hard to make something easy.
Done is better than perfect.
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.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
Numbers obscure nuance.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
Switching costs.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Builder, investor, trader.
Chronos, Kairos.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
Creativity before productivity.
Realize.
Hierarchy.
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
More before better.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
Thought, said, heard, understood.
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.
Labor, leverage.
Banks vs. Blockchains
Think of many things; do one.
View reading as an investment.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
Comfort vs. pain.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Cover, story.
It's all relative.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
Generalist, specialist.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Equity unites, politics divides.
80:20
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
Hare & tortoise.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
