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“I would say that the five most important skills are of course, reading, writing, arithmetic, and then as you’re adding in, persuasion, which is talking. And then finally, I would add computer programming just because it’s an applied form of arithmetic that just gets you so much leverage for free in any domain that you operate in.

If you’re good with computers, if you’re good at basic mathematics, if you’re good at writing, if you’re good at speaking, and if you like reading, you’re set for life.”
― Naval Ravikant

“In the end, it’s about what you want to be, not what you want to have.”
― Derek Sivers, Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur

“When a woman says about a man that he is intelligent, she often means handsome; when a man says about a woman that she is dumb, he always means attractive.
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What organized dating sites fail to understand is that people are far more interesting in what they don’t say about themselves.

For company, you often prefer those who find you interesting over those you find interesting.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

“You say it because you mean it and mean it because you say it.
The more nervous it makes you feel, the better, because it means you're being authentic and making yourself vulnerable.”
― Mark Manson, Models: Attract Women Through Honesty