Quotes
Lines I keep coming back to.
“Play long-term games with long-term people. All returns in life, whether in wealth, relationships, or knowledge, come from compound interest.”
— Naval Ravikant “Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
— Albert Einstein “Want to know who rules over you? Look at who you are not allowed to criticize.”
— Voltaire “Retirement is when you stop sacrificing today for an imaginary tomorrow. When today is complete, in and of itself, you’re retired.”
— Naval Ravikant “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.”
— Steve Jobs “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt “The best revenge is massive success.”
— Frank Sinatra “The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”
— Alan Kay “Deleted code is debugged code.”
— Jeff Sickel “Earn with your mind, not your time.”
— Naval Ravikant “Reading a book isn’t a race — the better the book, the more slowly it should be absorbed.”
— Naval Ravikant “The only true test of intelligence is if you get what you want out of life.”
— Naval Ravikant “A taste of freedom can make you unemployable.”
— Naval Ravikant “The smarter you get, the slower you read.”
— Naval Ravikant “To the experts, what looks like hard work from the outside, is play from the inside.”
— Naval Ravikant “Escape competition through authenticity.”
— Naval Ravikant “Learn to sell. Learn to build. If you can do both, you will be unstoppable.”
— Naval Ravikant “You want to be rich and anonymous, not poor and famous.”
— Naval Ravikant “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.”
— Chinese proverb “Those who can, do; those who can’t, teach.”
— George Bernard Shaw “A focused fool can accomplish more than a distracted genius.”
— Alex Hormozi “I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.”
— Confucius “Those who know don’t talk. Those who talk don’t know.”
— Lao Tzu “Become so good they can’t ignore you.”
— Cal Newport “When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive.”
— Marcus Aurelius “Hard choices, easy life. Easy choices, hard life.”
— Jerzy Gregorek “If you want to be successful, surround yourself with people who are more successful than you.”
— Alex Hormozi “To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.”
— Elbert Hubbard “Be curious. Read widely. Try new things.”
— Aaron Swartz “You can't compete against someone who is there just to have fun.”
— Peter Steinberger, on OpenClaw “Don’t sell anything you wouldn’t want your children to buy.”
— Naval Ravikant “The problem with truth is, once you see it, you can’t unsee it.”
— Naval Ravikant “Good marketing is finding different ways to tell the truth.”
— Naval Ravikant “The smartest people are all self-taught, even if they went to school.”
— Naval Ravikant “Wisdom is the set of things that we have to be reminded of over and over again.”
— Naval Ravikant “People who don’t organize into tribes get wiped out by people who do.”
— Naval Ravikant “If you don’t care to be liked, they can’t touch you.”
— Naval Ravikant “The secret to investing is to invest in unstoppable people building inevitable things.”
— Naval Ravikant “If your smartest friends start saying crazy things - pay attention. A paradigm shift may be underway.”
— Naval Ravikant “If you’re selling, your job isn’t to sell, it’s to build trust.”
— Naval Ravikant