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“A fit body, a calm mind, a house full of love. These things cannot be bought — they must be earned.”
― Naval Ravikant

“Desire is a contract that you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want.”
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“I would say that the five most important skills are of course, reading, writing, arithmetic, and then as you’re adding in, persuasion, which is talking. And then finally, I would add computer programming just because it’s an applied form of arithmetic that just gets you so much leverage for free in any domain that you operate in.

If you’re good with computers, if you’re good at basic mathematics, if you’re good at writing, if you’re good at speaking, and if you like reading, you’re set for life.”
― Naval Ravikant

“A rational person can find peace by cultivating indifference to things outside their control.”
― Naval Ravikant

“Forty hour workweeks are a relic of the Industrial Age. Knowledge workers function like athletes — train and sprint, then rest and reassess.”
― Naval Ravikant

“In any situation in life, you only have three options. You always have three options. You can change it, you can accept it, or you can leave it. What is not a good option is to sit around wishing you would change it but not changing it, wishing you would leave it but not leaving it, and not accepting it. It's that struggle, that aversion, that is responsible for most of our misery. The phrase that I probably use the most to myself in my head is just one word: accept.”
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“I don't actually read a lot of books. I pick up a lot of books and only get through a few, which form the foundation of my knowledge.”
― Naval Ravikant

“Don’t take yourself so seriously. You’re just a monkey with a plan.”
― Naval Ravikant

“If it entertains you now but will bore you someday, it's a distraction. Keep looking.”
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“You make your own luck if you stay at it long enough.”
― Naval Ravikant

“The only true test of intelligence is if you get what you want out of life.”
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“The means of learning are abundant, the desire to learn is scarce”
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“Reading is the ultimate meta-skill that can be traded for anything else.”
― Naval Ravikant

“Knowledge is a skyscraper. You can take a shortcut with a fragile foundation of memorization, or build slowly upon a steel frame of understanding.”
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“The smarter you get, the slower you read.”
― Naval Ravikant

“A taste of freedom can make you unemployable.”
― Naval Ravikant

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

“Competing without software is like competing without electricity.”
― Naval Ravikant

“Renting out your time means you’re essentially replaceable”
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“The people who have the ability to fail in public under their own name actually gain a lot of power.”
― Naval Ravikant

“Specialisation is for insects. I don't believe in this model of trying to focus your life down one thing. You've got one life just do everything you want.”
― Naval Ravikant

“The most dangerous things are heroin and a monthly salary”
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“If you’re good with computers, if you’re good at basic mathematics, if you’re good at writing, if you’re good at speaking, and if you like reading, you’re set for life.”
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“Wealth is assets that earn while you sleep”
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“If you want to be a philosopher king first become a king then become a philosopher. Not first become a philosopher and then become a king.”
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“You have two lives, and the second one begins when you realize you only have one”
― Naval Ravikant

“Art is anything done for its own sake”
― Naval Ravikant

“self-esteem is the reputation that you have with yourself." You’ll always know.”
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“Escape competition through authenticity”
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“Taleb’s Skin In The Game is required reading”
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