Kindle Notes & Highlights
Passive income is defined as income received on a regular basis which requires little effort to maintain.
The middle class focuses on saving; the wealthy focus on investing and earning.
The middle class have loosely-defined goals and flexible timelines; the wealthy have firm goals with firm deadlines.
The middle class would rather be entertained than educated; the wealthy would rather be educated than entertained.
“In every man, heredity and environment have combined to produce a creature of certain abilities and desires—including a deeply ingrained need to function in such a way that his life will be MEANINGFUL. A man has to BE something; he has to matter.” - Hunter S. Thompson
“Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things. And the reason they were able to do that was that they’ve had more experiences or they have thought more about their experiences than other people. Unfortunately, that’s too rare a commodity. A lot of people in our industry haven’t had very diverse experiences. So they don’t have enough
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