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If it looks simple, it was hard.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
Switching costs.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
Realize.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
Slow down.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Creativity before productivity.
No, it took me my whole life.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
Vision
No one is coming to save you.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
Resistance lifts.
Distraction.
Cover, story.
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
Everyone, Someone.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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 sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
Distraction, focus.
Appreciation.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
Generalist, specialist.
Reason for being
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
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.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Fear is the mind-killer.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
Chronos, Kairos.
Perspective.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
Done is better than perfect.
The Overthinker.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
Truth
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
Knowing vs. understanding.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
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.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
