VijayOf Europe’s 100 most valuable companies, not a single one was founded in the last forty years.
Compare this to the Amazons, Googles, and Facebooks of America.
@.tomhfh /37
Learn to handle the pain and you'll learn to delay the pleasure.
@.Thenakedpoet2 /38
There are two types of competition.
Outward: you compete in a marketplace and win or lose on merits, tactics, and / or advantage.
Inward: the ability to avoid or succumb to self-defeat.
I’ve witnessed more lost to inward competition than the former. Don’t defeat yourself.
@.web /39
Eating well now makes it easier to eat well in the future.
Exercising now makes it easier to exercise in the future.
Working on your craft now makes it easier to work on your craft in the future.
Doing the right thing now makes it easier to do the right thing in the future.
@.1adityajoshi /41
All self-help boils down to "choose long-term over short-term."
@.naval /44
This is important thing to remember:
1. Just because it brings you pleasure doesn’t mean you should pursue it.
2. Just because it brings you pain doesn’t mean you should avoid it.
@.smilingerik /45
An exercise bike: $299
An iPad: $399
An exercise bike with an iPad on it: $3999
A company that sells a subscription for an exercise bike with an iPad on it: $29,999,999,999
@.vetleforsland /47
On social media:
If you are consuming 90%+ of the time instead of creating - you are not using social media, social media is using you.
@.smilingerik /50
Being happy is a pointless goal. It’s simply a side effect of doing something you enjoy.
@.Kpaxs /51
I’m so full of what is right.. I can’t see what is good.
— Neil Peart /52
Your calendar is a better measure of success than your bank account.
@.JamesClear /53
A man without a heroic bent starts dying at the age of thirty.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb /54
People don't burnout because they're overworked.
They burnout because they're bored.
@.JasonYanowitz /55
Failure saves lives. In the airline industry, every time a plane crashes the probability of the next crash is lowered by that.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb /57
The book without a name by an author without a name.
— E. S. Ariel, 1848
*book #Thirukural
*author #Thiruvalluvar
/58
It is easier to macrobullshit than to microbullshit.
— @.nntaleb /59
When you worry, you suffer before something has even happened.
When you suffer before something has happened, you suffer more than necessary.
— @.smilingerik /60
Even better than being loved is being in love.
— @.naval /61
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
— Lao Tzu /62
The part of your work that’s new every time is the craft.
The part that’s the same every time is the toil.
— @.naval /63
Luck is more important than hard work, but hard work increases luck.
— @.orangebook_ /64
When you invest in a coach you invest in speed.
— @.FitFounder /65
Skills and knowledge are useless without the courage to act.
— @.orangebook_ /66
If you want less competition, pick a harder problem.
— @.shl /67
- Comfort will Dull you.
- Pain will Toughen you.
- Purpose will Enliven you.
- Challenge will Sharpen you.
- Real Meaning will Satisfy you.
- Overthinking will paralyze you.
- Responsibility will Invigorate you.
- Over Indulgence will Enervate you.
— @.fatehshernu /68
Why almost all coal was made at the same time (360 - 300 million years)?
Why almost all coal was made at the same time
"Good habits are like muscles, the more they are exercised, the stronger they become".
— @.fatehshernu /70
If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said an edit button.
— Not Jack Dorsey /71
Without money problems there is just 'art'.
Once the desperation to earn-to-live is gone, you are rewarded with a sort of creative freedom where building a business and getting paid centers around the things that you do best and expressing yourself creatively.
— @.Bailey_Jennings /73
"The only point of having a business is to improve your life." — @.GuruAnaerobic
If your lifestyle deteriorates because of your business, you're doing the wrong thing. It won't last. You won't last.
— @.dvassallo /75
Socrates used to walk around the house delaying his meal as he held that hunger was the best seasoning. #Antifragile
Fasting can turn any meal into a Michelin 3 star.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb /76
Distance yourself from people who:
1. speak poorly about others
2. have problems for every solution
3. enjoy complaining
4. always feel entitled
5. blame others for losing
6. take more than give
7. make you feel bad about yourself
8. cheat or lie
9. bully or troll
10. nitpick as a hobby
— @.ValaAfshar /77
Businessman: "Almost half my income comes from one client. I need to markedly increase my business"
Answer: "If you markedly increase your business, you will do well, but half your income will still come from one client. Another client"
#SelfSimilarity #PowerLaws
— @.nntaleb /78
@.joerogan: "What is 'discipline?'"
@.MikeTyson: "Do what you hate to do, but do it like you love it."
— @.kamalravikant /79
True reasoning is only possible when there is no motivation.
— @.naval /80
The cost of meeting other's expectations is losing yourself.
— @.Thenakedpoet2 /81
Once you understand compound interest, you do everything differently.
- Eat
- Work
- Study
- Exercise
- Relationships
It’s literally a life saving concept.
— @.jackbutcher /82
#Bitcoin is diamonds without the blood.. cash without the corruption.. gold without the weight.
— @.OPENDIME /83
It doesn't matter when we start. It doesn't matter where we start. All that matters is that we start.
— @.simonsinek /85
It is the maxim of every prudent master of a family, never to attempt to make at home what it will cost him more to make than to buy.
— Adam Smith /86
The link between lack of #sleep and #cancer is now so strong that the World Health Organization has classified any form of nighttime shift work as a probable #carcinogen.
— https://t.co/zp1zU3ZPlq /87
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Just because you can't, doesn't mean you shouldn't.
— Laird Hamilton /89
Picasso was once sitting in a park.
A woman saw him and asked if he could draw her a portrait. Picasso agreed, finished it, handed it to her, and said: "That'll be $5,000."
The woman was confused: "But it only took you 5 minutes."
Picasso said: "No, it took me my whole life."
— @.david_perell /90
Confidence is strength. Arrogance is weakness.
— @.lexfridman /91
If you want extraordinary results, you need to narrow your focus.
— @.Kpaxs /92
You'll never be bullish for exactly the right reasons.
You'll always be bearish for exactly the wrong reasons!
— @.pierre_rochard /93
"I don't believe we shall ever have a good money again before we take the thing out of the hands of government, we can't take it violently out of the hands of govt, all we can do is by some sly roundabout way introduce something that they can't stop"
Frederick #Hayek predicts #Bitcoin in 1984
— https://t.co/co58XcLcAX /95
Monotheistic religion isn't so much about telling man that there is one God, so much preventing man from thinking that he is God.
— @.nntaleb /96
The goal of media is to make every problem, your problem.
— @.naval /97