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Comfort vs. pain.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
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.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
Value is subjective.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
Truth, Perception
Map ≠ Territory
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
More moves and less chat.
Distraction is dilution.
You are what you think you are.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
Hierarchy.
Hare & tortoise.
Labor, leverage.
You are here.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
Process vs. plan.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
It's all relative.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
Numbers obscure nuance.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Vision
Banks vs. Blockchains
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
View reading as an investment.
Truth.
Cover, story.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
More before better.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
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.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
Builder, investor, trader.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
No one is coming to save you.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
Distraction.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
