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Work vs. Luck
Learning.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
Distraction.
It is really hard to make something easy.
Value is subjective.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Hierarchy.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Distraction, focus.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
More ≠ more.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
Truth, Perception
Think of many things; do one.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
80:20
Truth
Comfort vs. pain.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
Said, done.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
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.
Switching costs.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
Building vs. betting.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
Appreciation.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
Slow down.
More before better.
Builder, investor, trader.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
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.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
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.
Labor, leverage.
Hare & tortoise.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
Distraction is dilution.
No, it took me my whole life.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
