168 originals
Work vs. Luck
Everyone, Someone.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
Reason for being
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
The Overthinker.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Hare & tortoise.
Creativity before productivity.
More ≠ more.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
No, it took me my whole life.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
Distraction, focus.
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
Talk is cheap.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
Numbers obscure nuance.
Vision
Hierarchy.
Think of many things; do one.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
Generalist, specialist.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
Truth
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Do less, do more.
Perspective.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
Truth.
Truth, Perception
Experience.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
Most people are out of touch with reality because they confuse the world as it is, with the world as they think about it, and talk about it, and describe it.
Failure = feedback.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
80:20
Labor, leverage.
More moves and less chat.
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.
It is really hard to make something easy.
Well done is better than well said.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Shoot.
Cover, story.
You are here.
