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The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Everyone, Someone.
Hierarchy.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Cover, story.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
Creativity before productivity.
Switching costs.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
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.
Learning.
Truth, Perception
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.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Alan Watts
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
Chronos, Kairos.
More before better.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
Hare & tortoise.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
You are what you think you are.
Distraction is dilution.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
Don't just do something, stand there.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
Each man believes only his experience.
Truth, trend.
Experience.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
Labor, leverage.
The first step is the steepest.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Map ≠ Territory
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
Builder, investor, trader.
