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The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
Map ≠ Territory
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
Appreciation.
Truth
Well done is better than well said.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
More moves and less chat.
Said, done.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
Value is subjective.
It is really hard to make something easy.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
Failure = feedback.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
Comfort vs. pain.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
Builder, investor, trader.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
Generalist, specialist.
Resistance lifts.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
Experience.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Vision
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
Done is better than perfect.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Hare & tortoise.
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.
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
Fear is the mind-killer.
No one is coming to save you.
Switching costs.
Learning.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
Chronos, Kairos.
Shoot.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
Perspective.
