Quotes from the book "The Almanack of Naval Ravikant" - Eric Jorgenson

Here are some interesting quotes from the inspiring book "The Almanack of Naval Ravikant" By  Eric Jorgenson.

• Consider everything, but take nothing as gospel.
• Reading is faster than listening. Doing is faster than watching.
• Work as hard as you can. Even though who you work with and what you work on are more important than how hard you work.
• Intentions don't matter. Actions do. That's why being ethical is hard.
• If it entertains you now but will bore you someday, it's a distraction. keep looking.
• The less you want something, the less you think about it, the less you obsess over it, and the more you're going to do it naturally.
• If they can train you to do it, then eventually they will train a computer to do it.
• Products with no marginal cost of replication include books, media movies, and code. This is the highest form of leverage.
• Forget rich versus poor, white-collar versus blue. It's now leveraged versus un-leveraged.
• You're never going to get rich renting out your time.
• If you want to be part of a great tech company, then you need to be able to SELL or BUILD. If you don't do either, learn.
• Earn with your mind, not your time.
• We waste our time with short-term thinking and busy work. Warren Buffett spends a year deciding and a day acting. That act lasted decades.
• There are basically three really big decisions you make in your early life: Where you live, who you're with, and what you do.
• Whether in commerce, science, or politics - history remembers the artists.
• The winners of any game are the people who are so addicted they continue playing even as the marginal utility from winning declines.
• Way to get lucky
• Hope luck finds you
• Hustle until you stumble into it.
• Prepare the mind and be sensitive to chances others miss.
• Become the best at what you do. Refine what you do until this is true. Opportunity will seek you out. Luck becomes your destiny.
• The smartest people can explain things to a child.
• What we wish to be true clouds our perception of what is true. Suffering is the moment when we can no longer deny reality.
• Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.
• Almost all biases are time-saving heuristics. For important decisions, discard memory and identity, and focus on the problem.
• I never ask if "I like it" or "I don't like it". I think "This is what it is" or "This is what it isn't".
• Praise specifically, criticize generally.
• If you want it done, then go. And if you not, then send. - Julius Caesar.
• Simple heuristic: If you're evenly split on a difficult decision, take the path more painful in the short term.
• As you know, most of the gains in life come from suffering in the short term so you can get paid in the long term.
• Reading science, math, and philosophy one hour per day will likely put you at the upper echelon of human success within seven years.
• It's not about "educated" vs "uneducated". It's about "likes to read" and "doesn't like to read".
• The three big ones in life are wealth, health, and happiness. We pursue them in that order, but their importance is reversed.
• Don't take yourself so seriously. You're just a monkey with a plan.
• Maybe happiness is not something you inherit or even choose, but a highly personal skill that can be learned, like fitness or nutrition.
• Happiness is the state when nothing is missing. when nothing is missing, your mind shuts down and stops running into the past or future to regret something or to plan something.
• Happiness to me is mainly not suffering, not desiring, not thinking too much about the future or the past, and really embracing the present moment and the reality of what is, and the way it is.
• Memory and identity are burdens from the past preventing us from living freely in the present.
• The fundamental delusion: There is something out there that will make me happy and fulfilled forever.
• Happiness is being satisfied with what you have. Success comes from dissatisfaction. choose.
• There's the "five chimps theory" where you can predict a chimp's behavior by the five chimps it hangs out with the most.
• If you can't see yourself working with someone for life don't work with them for a day.
• First, you know it. Then, you understand it. Then, you can explain it. Then, you can feel it. Finally, you are it.
• Easy choices, hard life. Hard choices, easy life
• To have peace of mind, you have to have peace of body first.
• Impatience with actions, patience with results. As Nivi said, inspiration is perishable. When you have inspiration, act on it right then and there.
• Holding back means staying in bad relationships and bad jobs for years instead of minutes.
• The mind should be a servant and a tool, not a master.
• Anger is a hot coal you hold in your hand while waiting to throw it at somebody.
• If you eat, invest, and think according to what the "news" advocates, you'll end up nutritionally, financially, and morally bankrupt.
• The truth is, I don't read for self-improvement. I read out of curiosity and interest. The best book is the one you devour.

This is one of my favorite books of the year. Take time and read it.