168 originals
Hare & tortoise.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Realize.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Labor, leverage.
Each man believes only his experience.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
More before better.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Experience.
Appreciation.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
Distraction.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
It is really hard to make something easy.
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.
+2 vs. x2
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
Builder, investor, trader.
Shoot.
Equity unites, politics divides.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
Map ≠ Territory
Distraction, focus.
Value is subjective.
The obstacle is the way.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
Comfort vs. pain.
No one is coming to save you.
Knowing vs. understanding.
Said, done.
Reason for being
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.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Hours vs. Iterations
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Done is better than perfect.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
Failure = feedback.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
The first step is the steepest.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
