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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
Chronos, Kairos.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Generalist, specialist.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
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.
Value is subjective.
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
Builder, investor, trader.
+2 vs. x2
Movement, action.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
Realize.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
The obstacle is the way.
The Overthinker.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Experience.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
It's all relative.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
Map ≠ Territory
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
You are what you think you are.
You are here.
Creativity before productivity.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
Reason for being
The fool is always getting ready to live.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
Learning.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
Work vs. Luck
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
No one is coming to save you.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
Truth, trend.
Said, done.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Don't just do something, stand there.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
Equity unites, politics divides.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
