Naval Ravikant
All greatness comes from suffering.
Happiness is being satisfied with what you have. Success comes from dissatisfaction. Choose.
You can get almost anything you want out of life, as long as it’s one thing and you want it far more than anything else.
Replace all desires with a single desire.
If you want to be great, walk the rope without a boss and without a net.
The great ones don’t do it for money or fame or power. Or to build an institution, or to help others, or to save the world. Like a child tinkering, they create it for its own sake. Free of the burden of ambition. Deaf to the demands of the world.
It’s becoming easier and easier to be social, but exceptional people are built in solitude.
To make an original contribution, you have to be irrationally obsessed with something.
A busy calendar and a busy mind will destroy your ability to create anything great.
Go for a walk. Reconsider what you’re doing. If it’s not fun, you’re unlikely to be great at it anyway.
You make your own luck if you stay at it long enough.
If you aren’t curious about it, you’ll never be good at it.
Be patient, it takes 10 years to build a career in anything.
Be impatient with actions but patient with results.
When you’re finally wealthy, you’ll realize it wasn’t what you were seeking in the first place.
The reason to win the game is so that you can be free of it.