168 originals
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
Work vs. Luck
More ≠ more.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
Comfort vs. pain.
No, it took me my whole life.
Truth, Perception
Each man believes only his experience.
Hare & tortoise.
Creativity before productivity.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
View reading as an investment.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
It is really hard to make something easy.
Numbers obscure nuance.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
Don't just do something, stand there.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
You are what you think you are.
Switching costs.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
Shoot.
Truth, trend.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
Talk is cheap.
It took me years to play like myself.
Perspective.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
Experience.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
Map ≠ Territory
Chronos, Kairos.
Movement, action.
No great thing is created suddenly.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
Do less, do more.
Builder, investor, trader.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Labor, leverage.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Well done is better than well said.
