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Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
Reason for being
No one is coming to save you.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Each man believes only his experience.
80:20
It is really hard to make something easy.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
Map ≠ Territory
The Overthinker.
Knowing vs. understanding.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Appreciation.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
Building vs. betting.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
Failure = feedback.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
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 don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
Comfort vs. pain.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
Truth.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Truth, trend.
Think of many things; do one.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
Process vs. plan.
View reading as an investment.
Distraction.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Switching costs.
Labor, leverage.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Numbers obscure nuance.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
Builder, investor, trader.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Distraction is dilution.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
Distraction, focus.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
