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Creativity before productivity.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
Done is better than perfect.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Switching costs.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
Hierarchy.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
More before better.
Work vs. Luck
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
Building vs. betting.
Appreciation.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
Map ≠ Territory
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Cover, story.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
Comfort vs. pain.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
Numbers obscure nuance.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
Equity unites, politics divides.
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.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
The first step is the steepest.
Shoot.
Vision
Belief gets in the way of learning.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
Learning.
Value is subjective.
80:20
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
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.
Failure = feedback.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
Truth
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
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 simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Talk is cheap.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
More moves and less chat.
