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Comfort vs. pain.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
Done is better than perfect.
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.
The giver is the recipient.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
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.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
Labor, leverage.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Talk is cheap.
Perspective.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
Well done is better than well said.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
Distraction, focus.
Generalist, specialist.
Process vs. plan.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
Experience is up only.
Work vs. Luck
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
Shoot.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
Said, done.
+2 vs. x2
Experience.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
No, it took me my whole life.
No one is coming to save you.
Do less, do more.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
Alan Watts
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
More before better.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
Hours vs. Iterations
Banks vs. Blockchains
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
The first step is the steepest.
Reason for being
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.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
No great thing is created suddenly.
