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Distraction is dilution.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
Experience is up only.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Each man believes only his experience.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
You are what you think you are.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
Generalist, specialist.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
Truth, Perception
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
Peace begins when expectation ends.
Hierarchy.
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
Done is better than perfect.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
Creativity before productivity.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Distraction.
Vision
Fear is the mind-killer.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
When you feel like giving up is precisely the point everybody else gives up. So it’s at that point that you must put in extra effort.
Do less, do more.
Truth, trend.
It's all relative.
Mindset vs. Mind set
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Building vs. betting.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
Banks vs. Blockchains
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
Builder, investor, trader.
