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Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
Generalist, specialist.
Labor, leverage.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Each man believes only his experience.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
No great thing is created suddenly.
Perspective.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
Hare & tortoise.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
Talk is cheap.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Builder, investor, trader.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Appreciation.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
It took me years to play like myself.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
The giver is the recipient.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
Truth.
Well done is better than well said.
Done is better than perfect.
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.
View reading as an investment.
Experience is up only.
80:20
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
Value is subjective.
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
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.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
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 the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Distraction, focus.
Cover, story.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
Think of many things; do one.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
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.
Said, done.
It is really hard to make something easy.
Distraction.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
Alan Watts
Learning.
