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Work vs. Luck
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
Done is better than perfect.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Everyone, Someone.
Switching costs.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
It is really hard to make something easy.
Each man believes only his experience.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Distraction.
Process vs. plan.
Distraction, focus.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
Creativity before productivity.
Value is subjective.
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.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
More ≠ more.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Distraction is dilution.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
More before better.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Chronos, Kairos.
View reading as an investment.
Slow down.
Comfort vs. pain.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
You are here.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Numbers obscure nuance.
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.
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.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
Labor, leverage.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
Cover, story.
Hours vs. Iterations
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
Truth, trend.
Vision
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Builder, investor, trader.
You are what you think you are.
Movement, action.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
No great thing is created suddenly.
