168 originals
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Numbers obscure nuance.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
Hierarchy.
Hare & tortoise.
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.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
More before better.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
Chronos, Kairos.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Work vs. Luck
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
Comfort vs. pain.
Building vs. betting.
Slow down.
Distraction.
Reason for being
The fool is always getting ready to live.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
Distraction, focus.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
Process vs. plan.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
Truth, trend.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
The Overthinker.
Failure = feedback.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
Peace begins when expectation ends.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
Resistance lifts.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
Builder, investor, trader.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
No one is coming to save you.
Truth, Perception
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
Done is better than perfect.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
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.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
Truth
Map ≠ Territory
It is really hard to make something easy.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Perspective.
Generalist, specialist.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.