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We suffer more in imagination than reality.
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.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Hours vs. Iterations
It is really hard to make something easy.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Value is subjective.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
Fear is the mind-killer.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Labor, leverage.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Well done is better than well said.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
Appreciation.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
View reading as an investment.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
More ≠ more.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Work vs. Luck
Process vs. plan.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
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.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
Building vs. betting.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
Equity unites, politics divides.
Slow down.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
Knowing vs. understanding.
It's all relative.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
Think of many things; do one.
Everyone, Someone.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Truth, trend.
The first step is the steepest.
Builder, investor, trader.
80:20
If it looks simple, it was hard.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
Realize.
Truth, Perception
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
More before better.
