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Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
Switching costs.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Work vs. Luck
+2 vs. x2
Process vs. plan.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
Do less, do more.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
No great thing is created suddenly.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Labor, leverage.
More before better.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
Fear is the mind-killer.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Truth, trend.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Don't just do something, stand there.
Movement, action.
Creativity before productivity.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Experience is up only.
Shoot.
View reading as an investment.
Everyone, Someone.
Distraction is dilution.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
Alan Watts
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
Experience.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
Distraction.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
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.
Generalist, specialist.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
Builder, investor, trader.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
You are what you think you are.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Belief is a skill that requires practice.