Naval Ravikant Quotes Page 14

“We waste our time with short term thinking and busywork. Warren Buffett spends a year deciding and a day acting. That act lasts decades.”

“Wealth creation is an evolutionarily recent positive-sum game. Status is an old zero-sum game. Those attacking wealth creation are often just seeking status.”

“We’re not really here for that long and we don’t really matter that much. And nothing that we do lasts. So eventually you will fade.

Your works will fade.
Your children will fade.
Your thoughts will fade.
This planet will fade.
It will all be gone.”

“What feels like play to you, but looks like work to others?”

“What if your life was a sacred responsibility?

The body, a temple.
Every motive, pure.
Every glance, compassionate.
Every word, true.
Every act, right.
Every moment, holy.”

“What you want to get everyone to is retirement... Retirement is when you stop sacrificing today for some imaginary tomorrow. When today is complete, in and of itself, you're retired.”

“Whatever your bar is for working with people, raise it.”

“When building habits, choose consistency over content.

The best book is the one you can’t put down.

The best exercise is the one you enjoy doing every day.

The best health food is the one you find tasty.

The best work is the work you’d do for free.”

“When choosing between investments, ask yourself: Where is my dollar going to work the hardest?”

“When intermittent fasting, it’s easier to eat healthy in the daytime than in the evening, before willpower depletion and social pressures set in.”

“When it comes to healing the mind, placebo effects are completely valid.”

“When numeracy became a thing, you learned math, when literacy became a thing, you learned to read and write, and when computers became a thing, you learned to code.”

“When you combine things you're not supposed to combine, people get interested.”

“When you have children you learn to love something more than you love yourself… and you can talk about that all day long but you’ve never had that feeling until you’ve had a child, and it’s very important for all of us I think to experience that feeling.”

“When you take away the mental and the physical, whatever remains is spiritual.”

“Whether you’re excited or nervous when your favorite asset falls in price marks whether you’re investing or merely speculating.”

“Whether you’re starting a company or a cult, recruit for conviction, not curiosity.”

“Wisdom is the measure of long-term thinking.”

“Without the first amendment, there is no freedom. Without the second, there is no first.”

“Without your story, who would you be?”

“Working with who you want to work with, on what you want to work on, is actually just play.”

“Would I still be interested in learning this thing if I couldn't ever tell anybody about it? That's how I know it's real. That's how I know it's something I actually want to know.”

“Write truth, and don’t waste a word.”

“Write tweets, read books.”

“You are completely in control of your own happiness, and you have no control over the happiness of others.”

“You can escape competition through authenticity, when you realize that no one can compete with you on being you.”

“You can learn microeconomics in your spare time and by running a business.”

“You can neither give happiness, nor receive it.”

“You can never be too rich, too thin, or too clean.”

“You can’t buy a real kiss.”