168 originals
No one is coming to save you.
Work vs. Luck
Vision
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Hierarchy.
Slow down.
No, it took me my whole life.
Everyone, Someone.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
More moves and less chat.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
Truth, trend.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
Appreciation.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
Map ≠ Territory
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
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.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
Distraction.
Process vs. plan.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Alan Watts
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
You are what you think you are.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
Said, done.
Do less, do more.
It is really hard to make something easy.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
Learning.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
Building vs. betting.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
Numbers obscure nuance.
Truth.
Switching costs.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
Truth, Perception
Observer, expert, practitioner.
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.
Comfort vs. pain.
More before better.
View reading as an investment.
