168 originals
Labor, leverage.
Hare & tortoise.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Distraction, focus.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
Work vs. Luck
No, it took me my whole life.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
You are here.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
Resistance lifts.
Said, done.
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.
Builder, investor, trader.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
Vision
Don't just do something, stand there.
Mindset vs. Mind set
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
Hierarchy.
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.
More ≠ more.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
Perspective.
Comfort vs. pain.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
You are what you think you are.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
Truth
No one is coming to save you.
Distraction.
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
More before better.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
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.
80:20
Failure = feedback.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
Chronos, Kairos.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
Truth, trend.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Realize.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Learning.
Everyone, Someone.
The Overthinker.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
