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“MAKE FRIENDS WITH PEOPLE WHO WANT THE BEST FOR YOU”
― Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

“If it entertains you now but will bore you someday, it's a distraction. Keep looking.”
― Naval Ravikant, HOW TO GET RICH:

“Be happy with what you have while working for what you want.”
― Helen Keller

“Don't become a philosopher before you become rich!”
― Shah Rukh Khan

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Not everything that happens happens for a reason, but everything that survives survives for a reason.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life

“The more you learn, the more you earn.”
― Warren Buffett

“Everybody in this country should learn to program a computer... because it teaches you how to think.”
― Steve Jobs

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

“The smarter you get, the slower you read.”
― Naval Ravikant

“To say "I love you" one must know first how to say the "I".”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:
1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

“Self-sufficiency is the greatest of all wealth.”
― Epicurus

“You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“In my whole life, I have known no wise people (over a broad subject matter area) who didn't read all the time -- none, zero. You'd be amazed at how much Warren reads--and at how much I read. My children laugh at me. They think I'm a book with a couple of legs sticking out.”
― Charles T. Munger, Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger

“To say ‘I love you’ one must first know how to say the ‘I.’ The meaning of the ‘I’ is an independent, self-sufficient entity that does not exist for the sake of any other person. A person who exists only for the sake of his loved one is not an independent entity, but a spiritual parasite. The love of a parasite is worth nothing.”
― Ayn Rand

“Money, social status, plastic surgery, beautiful houses, powerful positions – none of these will bring you happiness. Lasting happiness comes only from serotonin, dopamine and oxytocin.1”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”
― Marcus Aurelius , Meditations

“Some women have a weakness for shoes... I can go barefoot if necessary. I have a weakness for books.”
― Oprah Winfrey

“Don't be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends & Influence People

“If you’re not failing, you’re not pushing your limits, and if you’re not pushing your limits, you’re not maximizing your potential”
― Ray Dalio, Principles: Life and Work

“When you fall in love with the process rather than the product, you don’t have to wait to give yourself permission to be happy. You can be satisfied anytime your system is running.”
― James Clear, Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.”
― Jim Rohn

“As long as I have a book in my hand, I don’t feel like I’m wasting time.” —Charlie Munger”
― Eric Jorgenson, The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness

“Read 500 pages like this every day. That’s how knowledge works. It builds up, like compound interest. All of you can do it, but I guarantee not many of you will do it.”
― Warren Buffett

“The means of learning are abundant—it’s the desire to learn that’s scarce.”
― Timothy Ferriss, Tribe Of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus