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Creativity before productivity.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
No, it took me my whole life.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Distraction, focus.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
No one is coming to save you.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
More before better.
Truth, Perception
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
Labor, leverage.
Value is subjective.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Distraction is dilution.
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.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
Talk is cheap.
Building vs. betting.
Banks vs. Blockchains
Do less, do more.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
Comfort vs. pain.
Don't just do something, stand there.
Fear is the mind-killer.
It is really hard to make something easy.
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.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
Experience is up only.
Cover, story.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
No great thing is created suddenly.
Hours vs. Iterations
Shoot.
Reason for being
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
Resistance lifts.
Hierarchy.
Generalist, specialist.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
Each man believes only his experience.
The giver is the recipient.
