168 originals
Observer, expert, practitioner.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Everyone, Someone.
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.
Work vs. Luck
Builder, investor, trader.
It is really hard to make something easy.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Distraction, focus.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
Vision
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Chronos, Kairos.
You are here.
Each man believes only his experience.
Movement, action.
Resistance lifts.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
Realize.
It took me years to play like myself.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
Truth, trend.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
View reading as an investment.
Don't just do something, stand there.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
More ≠ more.
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.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
Knowing vs. understanding.
Map ≠ Territory
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
More before better.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
Comfort vs. pain.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
You are what you think you are.
Equity unites, politics divides.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Distraction.
Banks vs. Blockchains
Belief gets in the way of learning.
