Making complex ideas simple.

zero-sum, infinite-sum

Value is subjective.

We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

No one is coming to save you.

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.

Movement, action.

Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.

Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.

If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.

One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”

View reading as an investment.

Hierarchy.

You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines

Distraction is dilution.

More before better.

Experience is up only.

Observer, expert, practitioner.

Labor, leverage.

Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.

The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.

It is really hard to make something easy.

If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.

Bull, Bear, Builder.

What you can imagine depends on what you know.

The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth

Truth, Perception

There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.

Fashions fade, style is eternal.

The more we know, the more we know we don't know.

Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.

Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.

Process vs. plan.

The giver is the recipient.

Work vs. Luck

Distraction.

Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.

Failure is the frame, not the picture.

Mindset vs. Mind set

Well done is better than well said.

Switching costs.

Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.

Vision

The fool is always getting ready to live.

Perspective.

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

We may define therapy as a search for value.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.

Expectation is the root of all heartache.

If it looks simple, it was hard.

You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.

Hare & tortoise.

The more you compare, the less you differentiate.

Builder, investor, trader.

Distraction, focus.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

Creativity before productivity.