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Failure = feedback.
The first step is the steepest.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Builder, investor, trader.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Distraction.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Said, done.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
Everyone, Someone.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
If it looks simple, it was hard.
Generalist, specialist.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
Done is better than perfect.
Truth, trend.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
Fear is the mind-killer.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
Knowing vs. understanding.
80:20
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
Building vs. betting.
Hare & tortoise.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
The obstacle is the way.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Truth.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
Switching costs.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
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.
More ≠ more.
You are what you think you are.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Work vs. Luck
Labor, leverage.
Comfort vs. pain.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
No, it took me my whole life.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.