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Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
Hierarchy.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
You are what you think you are.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Distraction, focus.
Creativity before productivity.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
Labor, leverage.
Movement, action.
It's all relative.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
Said, done.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
More ≠ more.
80:20
Hare & tortoise.
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.
Resistance lifts.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
Equity unites, politics divides.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
Builder, investor, trader.
Numbers obscure nuance.
Vision
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Process vs. plan.
Each man believes only his experience.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
It took me years to play like myself.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
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.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Distraction is dilution.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Learning.
Comfort vs. pain.
Truth, trend.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
It is really hard to make something easy.
Work vs. Luck
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
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.
Reason for being
Appreciation.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Value is subjective.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
The Overthinker.
