168 originals
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
No, it took me my whole life.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
Work vs. Luck
Perspective.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Said, done.
It is really hard to make something easy.
Experience.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
Experience is up only.
The giver is the recipient.
Distraction.
Truth, trend.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
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.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
View reading as an investment.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Everyone, Someone.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
Do less, do more.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
Well done is better than well said.
Done is better than perfect.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
Don't just do something, stand there.
Value is subjective.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Hare & tortoise.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
Comfort vs. pain.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
Think of many things; do one.
Generalist, specialist.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.