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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
The obstacle is the way.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
Each man believes only his experience.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
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.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
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.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
Appreciation.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
Shoot.
Distraction, focus.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
Done is better than perfect.
Alan Watts
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
Labor, leverage.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
Hare & tortoise.
Talk is cheap.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
Banks vs. Blockchains
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
Reason for being
Numbers obscure nuance.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
No one is coming to save you.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
Truth, trend.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
No, it took me my whole life.
Don't just do something, stand there.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
Resistance lifts.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Experience is up only.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
