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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.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Distraction.
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.
Chronos, Kairos.
Building vs. betting.
Map ≠ Territory
Banks vs. Blockchains
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
Each man believes only his experience.
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.
Resistance lifts.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
Truth.
Reason for being
View reading as an investment.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
More before better.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Realize.
Slow down.
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
Truth
Everyone, Someone.
Equity unites, politics divides.
80:20
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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.
Hierarchy.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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.
Experience is up only.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
Numbers obscure nuance.
Experience.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
It is really hard to make something easy.
Well done is better than well said.
