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Belief is a skill that requires practice.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
Labor, leverage.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
Hours vs. Iterations
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
Banks vs. Blockchains
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Talk is cheap.
Alan Watts
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.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
Creativity before productivity.
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.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Building vs. betting.
Don't just do something, stand there.
Truth.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
Well done is better than well said.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Equity unites, politics divides.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
80:20
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
View reading as an investment.
Think of many things; do one.
Reason for being
No great thing is created suddenly.
Hierarchy.
Failure = feedback.
Hare & tortoise.
Switching costs.
The giver is the recipient.
Done is better than perfect.
No, it took me my whole life.
Truth, Perception
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
No one is coming to save you.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Builder, investor, trader.
Appreciation.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
Process vs. plan.
The first step is the steepest.
