Naval Ravikant Quotes Page 12

“The problem with modern culture is that atheism finally reached the masses.”

“The product is the résumé for the team.”

“The purpose of having money is so that you don't have to be at a specific place at a specific time doing anything you don't want to do.”

“The quality of your mind is the quality of your life.”

“The reason to win the game is so that you can be free of it.”

“The reason you want wealth is because it buys you your freedom. So, you don’t have to wear a tie like a collar around your neck. So, you don’t have to wake up at 7:00 AM, and rush to work, and sit in commute traffic. So, you don’t have to waste away your entire life grinding all the productive hours away into a soulless job that doesn’t fulfill you.”

“The reward for getting on the stage is fame. The price of fame is you can’t get off the stage.”

“The right to vote doesn’t give you power; power gives you the right to vote.”

“The road to socialism via inflation:

- Print money, crash the reserve currency, destroy savers, and force them into inflated assets.

- Asset inflation leads to inequality. Demonize asset holders and tax the nominal gains, thereby confiscating the real value of the assets.”

“The secret to a happy relationship is two happy people.”

“The secret to public speaking is to speak as if you were alone.”

“The selfish person realizes that happiness belongs to the self-less.”

“The selfish reason to be ethical is that it attracts the other ethical people in the network.”

“The skills you really want can’t be taught, but they can be learned.”

“The smarter you get, the slower you read.”

“The source of wisdom is pain.”

“The success formula: solve your own problems and freely share the solutions.”

“The three big decisions - what you do, where you live, and who you’re with.”

“The three big ones in life are wealth, health, and happiness. We pursue them in that order but their importance is in the reverse.”

“The truest way to decline is just to say, 'it doesn’t feel right to me.'

No explanation is necessary.”

“The universe is rigged in such a way that if you just want one thing and you focus on that, you will get it. But everything else, you got to let go.”

“The way to get out of the competition trap is actually to be authentic.”

“The way to retire is actually to find the thing that you know how to do better than anybody. And, you know how to do that better than anybody because you love to do it.”

“The way to survive in modern society is to be an ascetic. It is to retreat from society. There's too much society everywhere you go. The only solution is turn it off.”

“The way we think you get peace is by resolving all your external problems, but there are unlimited external problems. So, the only way to actually get peace is on the inside by giving up this idea of problems.”

“The world is full of teachers but devoid of students.”

“The world just reflects your own feelings back at you. Reality is neutral.”

“Their pessimism is your opportunity.”

“Theories are explanations, not predictions.”

“There is always and everywhere a shortage of good engineers.”