Naval Ravikant Quotes

“'Clear thinker' is a better compliment than 'smart'.”

“All of the great entrepreneurs are artists.”

“Be the kind of person that your kids would look up to, if you weren’t their parent.”

“Comedy is the art of telling forbidden truths, without getting beat up.”

“Don’t argue with idiots on the Internet.

How do you know you’re arguing with an idiot? Because they’re arguing with idiots on the Internet.”

“Either create wealth or a passive income, or become a monk, or do what you love more than money. What remains is taming the mind and the body, seeking truth, creating love and art. The world has nothing to offer you. And you are free.”

“Eventually, you’ll only be allowed to have a video of a fireplace.”

“Give advice to others, then follow it yourself.”

“Go big, because we all go home.”

“Good platforms are invisible.”

“I went looking for truth and all I found was love.

I went looking for love and all I found was truth.”

“If you always tell the truth, you won’t have to rehearse what you’re going to say.”

“If you think the AI is sentient, you just failed the Turing Test from the other side.”

“If your title matters to you, you don’t belong at a startup.”

“It takes time to develop your gut, but once it’s developed, don’t listen to anything else.”

“It’s not 10,000 hours, it’s 10,000 iterations.”

“Just as Instagram makes people look better than they are, Twitter makes them seem smarter than they are.”

“Leave everything better than you found it.”

“Most of the time, the mind is just mud wrestling with itself.”

“Never attribute to conspiracy what is more easily explained by incentives and incompetence.”

“Panic led to lockdowns. Lockdowns led to fiscal stimulus. Stimulus led to inflation. Inflation led to monetary tightening. Tightening leads to recession.

The panic wasn’t free – and the bill is coming due.”

“Someday, not being proficient with computers will be considered a form of illiteracy.”

“The best analogy that I‘ve found for AI is that it’s like a calculator for reading and writing.”

“The modern world is managed by bureaucracies staffed with average people. Bureaucrats pile on rule after rule to keep the below-average from hurting themselves or others.

Smart and capable individuals need to either opt-out of society or win big before the system suffocates them.”

“The more easily you get offended, the less intelligent you actually are.”

“The worst paying jobs are the ones that make you do the same thing over and over.”

“You don’t need mentors, you need action.”

“Your worldview is your world.”