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Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
It is really hard to make something easy.
Reason for being
Vision
Comfort vs. pain.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
Switching costs.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
Builder, investor, trader.
Banks vs. Blockchains
The Overthinker.
Building vs. betting.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
Distraction.
Movement, action.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
You try to do the best with what you've got and ignore everything else. That's why horses get blinders in horse racing: You look at the horse next to you, and you lose a step.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
Don't just do something, stand there.
You are what you think you are.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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.
Cover, story.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
Think of many things; do one.
Hierarchy.
Distraction is dilution.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Map ≠ Territory
Truth.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
Value is subjective.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
Perspective.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
Chronos, Kairos.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
More ≠ more.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
More before better.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
Hare & tortoise.
It's all relative.
Work vs. Luck
Done is better than perfect.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Talk is cheap.