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Truth, trend.
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.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
Hierarchy.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
Slow down.
Each man believes only his experience.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
Perspective.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
Numbers obscure nuance.
Hours vs. Iterations
The first step is the steepest.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
More moves and less chat.
Creativity before productivity.
Reason for being
Experience.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
+2 vs. x2
The obstacle is the way.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
More ≠ more.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Distraction.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
Vision
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
No, it took me my whole life.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
Talk is cheap.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
Bull, Bear, Builder.
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.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
The world will try and tell you who you are, and you have to tell yourself who you are. There's this ongoing battle, and somehow there needs to be a reconciliation between the two.
Appreciation.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
Well done is better than well said.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Alan Watts
No one is coming to save you.
Failure = feedback.
Builder, investor, trader.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
Said, done.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.