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You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
Distraction.
Perspective.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
Experience.
Slow down.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Experience is up only.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
Shoot.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Fear is the mind-killer.
+2 vs. x2
It is really hard to make something easy.
Distraction, focus.
Builder, investor, trader.
Said, done.
Labor, leverage.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Done is better than perfect.
Well done is better than well said.
The first step is the steepest.
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.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
Appreciation.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
Do less, do more.
Generalist, specialist.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
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.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
Process vs. plan.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
Hours vs. Iterations
Comfort vs. pain.
No great thing is created suddenly.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
Talk is cheap.
Work vs. Luck
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Value is subjective.
Alan Watts
