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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.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
Value is subjective.
Builder, investor, trader.
Truth.
Creativity before productivity.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
It is really hard to make something easy.
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
Comfort vs. pain.
Failure = feedback.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Don't just do something, stand there.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
Distraction, focus.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Learning.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
Chronos, Kairos.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
Distraction.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
Truth, trend.
View reading as an investment.
Experience is up only.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Done is better than perfect.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
Banks vs. Blockchains
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
80:20
Cover, story.
Process vs. plan.
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.
It's all relative.
Resistance lifts.
Each man believes only his experience.
More before better.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
Hours vs. Iterations
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
You are here.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
Knowing vs. understanding.
