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Switching costs.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Each man believes only his experience.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Work vs. Luck
Movement, action.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Appreciation.
Chronos, Kairos.
Think of many things; do one.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
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.
You are here.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Perspective.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
It is really hard to make something easy.
Distraction.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
Value is subjective.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
Process vs. plan.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Truth.
Said, done.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Building vs. betting.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Vision
Distraction, focus.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
Builder, investor, trader.
Comfort vs. pain.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
View reading as an investment.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
No one is coming to save you.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
Truth, trend.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
More before better.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Labor, leverage.
Reason for being
Slow down.
Creativity before productivity.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
