“When you’re dishonest with yourself, you’re disconnected from reality. You’re going to make poor decisions. You’re going to drop out of the moment, and you’re going to be less happy, and you’re going to be wrong.”
"‘I don’t have time’ is just saying it’s not a priority."
- Naval Ravikant
Awareness
"Read what you love until you love to read."
- Naval Ravikant
Motivation
"Entrepreneurship is really hard and painful - I'm not sure I'd recommend it for anyone who can't handle the extreme stress."
- Naval Ravikant
Adversity
"Early on, find things where you have any interest and take on accountability. Don’t worry about short-term compensation. If you dive into the edge of knowledge, which nobody knows how to solve, and solve the hard problems, people will line up behind you. The leverage will come."
- Naval Ravikant
Success
"The goal is not to be rich. The goal is to be financially independent."
- Naval Ravikant
Success
"The worth of a person lies in their character, not in their looks."
- Beauty and the Beast
Integrity
"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Integrity
"Be content to act, and leave the talking to others."
- Baltasar Gracian
Integrity
"Fake people have an image to maintain. Real people just don’t care."
- Hachiman Hikigaya
Integrity
"What is right? What is wrong? In this mixed up world, deciding what is right and wrong is not easy. You can’t just go by somebody else’s rules. If you let yourself be controlled like that, you’ll just become a puppet that can’t make decisions on its own. You have to live by your rules."
- Gintoki Sakata
Integrity