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Expectation is the root of all heartache.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
Banks vs. Blockchains
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
Do less, do more.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
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.
Perspective.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
Creativity before productivity.
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.
It took me years to play like myself.
Hierarchy.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
Vision
Building vs. betting.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
Truth, trend.
It is really hard to make something easy.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
The obstacle is the way.
Builder, investor, trader.
Realize.
Work vs. Luck
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
Map ≠ Territory
+2 vs. x2
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
Done is better than perfect.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
80:20
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.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
Truth, Perception
It's all relative.
Mindset vs. Mind set
Experience.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
You are here.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
When you feel like giving up is precisely the point everybody else gives up. So it’s at that point that you must put in extra effort.
Learning.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
Well done is better than well said.
Distraction is dilution.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
