Naval Ravikant Quotes Page 13

“There is no failure, only feedback.”

“There’s a voice in your head that’s always talking. Especially when talking about itself, it lies.”

“There’s always someone higher up the stack. So the success driven mentality drives you to unhappiness and if you want to be successful, surround yourself with people who are more successful than you are. But if you want to be happy, surround yourself with people who are less successful than you are. So this is the contradiction that we deal with all day long because we’re also told that the American dream will bring you happiness, and it will not. ”

“There’s no need for conspiracies when incentives will do.”

“This is the last time a fiat currency bubble pops, because it’s the first time we have a viable alternative.”

“Time spent has nothing to do with job done.”

“Timeless content compounds.”

“To be honest, speak without identity.”

“To get paid in the future, live in the future.”

“To measure the quality of your life, simply do nothing, and see how it feels.”

“To retain innocence, reduce judgements.”

“To see if you have free will, just stop exercising it.”

“To the experts, what looks like hard work from the outside, is play from the inside.”

“To the generation born after Bitcoin, it’s as old as gold.”

“To write a great book, you must first become the book.”

“Total honesty at all times. It’s almost always possible to be honest & positive.”

“Tour success in life depends on your ability to make good decisions. Your happiness depends on your ability to not care about the outcomes.”

“Truth is timeless.”

“Tune out society and its endless and noisy demands.”

“Twitter is television for intellectuals.”

“Two kinds of fools - those who take religion literally, and those who think it has no value.”

“Using creativity to solve problems cannot be taught, and it’s ultimately what free markets pay for.”

“Watch your mind all day long. You can meditate 24/7. Meditation is not a sit down, close your eyes activity. Meditation is just basically watching your own thoughts like you would watch anything else in the outside world.”

“We are all artists. The only question is if you acknowledge it or not.”

“We are far too scared of nuclear power plants, and not scared enough of institutes of virology.”

“We are going from bread and circuses to cannabis and video games to psychedelics and VR.”

“We didn’t separate church and state, we merged them.”

“We live in the age of wonders, but familiarity has struck us blind.”

“We prefer to see winners as naturally talented rather than hard working. Because if it were reversed, what would that imply about us?”

“We study science to learn how to get what we want. We study philosophy to know what we want in the first place.”