Naval Ravikant Quotes Page 15

“You cannot quiet the mind, you can only watch it.”

“You don’t get rich by spending your time to save money. You get rich by saving your time to make money.”

“You don’t have eight creative, problem-solving hours in the day - you have two.
Spend your time wisely.”

“You get paid for being right first, and to be first, you can’t wait for consensus.”

“You get rewarded for unique knowledge, not for effort. Effort is required to create unique knowledge.”

“You have social statisticians, scientists, and researchers in lab coats, literally the best minds of our generation figuring out how to addict you to the news. And if you fall for it, if you get addicted, your brain will get destroyed.”

“You have to surrender, at least a little bit, to be the best version of yourself possible.”

“You know that song that you can't get out of your head? All thoughts work that way. Careful what you read.”

“You lead by being willing to walk alone.”

“You want to be free, but accountable.”

“You want to rest your mind. You want to learn how to settle into your mind. Now, I look forward to solitary confinement. You leave me alone for a day, it will be the happiest day I've had in a while. That is a superpower that I think everybody can attain.”

“You'll do better work if you're bored rather than busy.”

“You're born, you have a whole set of sensory experiences and stimulations and lights and colors and sounds, and then you die. And how you choose to interpret that is up to you. You do have that choice.”

“You’re spending time to save money when you should be spending money to save time.”

“Your character starts out spotless. You can only stain it.”

“Your children are here to take you away from your own self.”

“Your closest friends are the ones you can have a relationship with about nothing.”

“Your company may not be in the software business, but eventually, a software company will be in your business.”

“Your goal in life is to find out the people who need you the most, to find out the business that needs you the most, to find the project and the art that needs you the most. There is something out there just for you.”

“Your mistake is that you’re writing to be read.”

“Your real resumé is a painful recounting of all of your struggles.”

“An army of robots is freely available - it's just packed in data centers for heat and space efficiency. Use it.”

“Apply specific knowledge, with leverage, and eventually you will get what you deserve.”

“Arm yourself with specific knowledge, accountability, and leverage. Specific knowledge is knowledge that you cannot be trained for. If society can train you, it can train someone else, and replace you.”

“Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.”

“Code and media are permissionless leverage. They're the leverage behind the newly rich. You can create software and media that works for you while you sleep.”

“Don't partner with cynics and pessimists. Their beliefs are self-fulfilling.”

“Embrace accountability, and take business risks under your own name. Society will reward you with responsibility, equity, and leverage.”

“Fortunes require leverage. Business leverage comes from capital, people, and products with no marginal cost of replication (code and media).”

“If you can't code, write books and blogs, record videos and podcasts.”