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Creativity before productivity.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Well done is better than well said.
Equity unites, politics divides.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Alan Watts
Done is better than perfect.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
+2 vs. x2
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
Shoot.
Failure = feedback.
The giver is the recipient.
Experience.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
More moves and less chat.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
Hours vs. Iterations
Thought, Spoken, Heard
Don't just do something, stand there.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
The Overthinker.
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
Cover, story.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
Switching costs.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
More before better.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
Realize.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
80:20
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Fear is the mind-killer.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
You are what you think you are.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
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.
Do less, do more.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
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.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.