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When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
More before better.
Everyone, Someone.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Work vs. Luck
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
Creativity before productivity.
Chronos, Kairos.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
The obstacle is the way.
Distraction is dilution.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Cover, story.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
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.
Switching costs.
Do less, do more.
You are what you think you are.
Most people are out of touch with reality because they confuse the world as it is, with the world as they think about it, and talk about it, and describe it.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
Vision
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
Value is subjective.
Learning.
It took me years to play like myself.
Don't just do something, stand there.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
Appreciation.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Hierarchy.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
Numbers obscure nuance.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Slow down.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Knowing vs. understanding.
