168 originals
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
Labor, leverage.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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.
Done is better than perfect.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Appreciation.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
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.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
More ≠ more.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Truth, trend.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Distraction, focus.
Alan Watts
Value is subjective.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
Hierarchy.
Builder, investor, trader.
No one is coming to save you.
Creativity before productivity.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
Think of many things; do one.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
No, it took me my whole life.
Banks vs. Blockchains
No great thing is created suddenly.
Resistance lifts.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
It is really hard to make something easy.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
When you feel like giving up is precisely the point everybody else gives up. So it’s at that point that you must put in extra effort.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
+2 vs. x2
Experience is up only.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
The Overthinker.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
Slow down.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
Knowing vs. understanding.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
