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You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
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.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
The first step is the steepest.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
The obstacle is the way.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Truth, trend.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
Work vs. Luck
Perspective.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
Fear is the mind-killer.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
Process vs. plan.
Each man believes only his experience.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
More ≠ more.
The giver is the recipient.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Creativity before productivity.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
Equity unites, politics divides.
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.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
Truth.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
Banks vs. Blockchains
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
Failure = feedback.
No great thing is created suddenly.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
Map ≠ Territory
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
It is really hard to make something easy.
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.
Builder, investor, trader.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
Distraction, focus.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
No, it took me my whole life.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
Realize.
Mindset vs. Mind set
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
Building vs. betting.
