HOW TO GET RICH Quotes

“If it entertains you now but will bore you someday, it's a distraction. Keep looking.”
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“The means of learning are abundant, the desire to learn is scarce”
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“Renting out your time means you’re essentially replaceable”
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“The most dangerous things are heroin and a monthly salary”
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“If you want to be a philosopher king first become a king then become a philosopher. Not first become a philosopher and then become a king.”
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“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.”
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“self-esteem is the reputation that you have with yourself." You’ll always know.”
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“Escape competition through authenticity”
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“Wealth is assets that earn while you sleep”
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“Taleb’s Skin In The Game is required reading”
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“Wealth is a very positive sum game. We create things together. We’re starting this endeavor to create this piece of art that explains what we’re doing. At the end of it, something brand new will be created. It’s a positive sum game. Status is a very old game Status, on the other hand, is a zero-sum game. It’s a very old game. We’ve been playing it since monkey tribes. It’s hierarchical. Who’s number one? Who’s number two? Who’s number three? And for number three to move to number two, number two has to move out of that slot. So, status is a zero-sum game.”
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“Entrepreneurship is essentially an act of creating something new from scratch. Predicting that society will want it, and then figuring out how to scale it, and get it to everybody in a profitable way, in a self-sustaining way.”
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“You must own equity to gain your financial freedom”
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“So, if you’re willing to bleed a little bit every day but in exchange you’ll win big later, you will do better. That is, by the way, entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurs bleed every day. They’re not making money, they’re losing money, they’re constantly stressed out, all the responsibility is upon them, but when they win they win big. On average they’ll make more. 19.”
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“Status is your ranking in the social hierarchy.”
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“Wealth buys your freedom”
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“People creating wealth will always be attacked by people playing status games”
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“be very careful about reading other people’s opinions and even be careful when reading facts because so-called facts are often just opinions with a veneer [of pseudoscience] around them.”
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“If you care about ethics in wealth creation, it is better to create your wealth using code and media as leverage because then those products are equally available to everybody as opposed to trying to create your wealth through labor or capital.”
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“The most dangerous things are heroin, and a monthly salary." Right, because they are highly addictive.”
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“If I do my job right, if I create value for society, society says, "Oh, thank you. We owe you something in the future for the work that you did in the past. Here’s a little IOU. Let’s call that money.”
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“So, you’re right. It’s about distributing what rich people used to have to everybody.”
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“People living below their means have freedom”
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“So, if you just keep stirring the pot and stirring the pot, that alone you will run out of unluck.”
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“I’ve learned that tit-for-tat iterated prisoner’s dilemma is the piece of game theory that is worth knowing the most. You can almost put down the game theory book after that.”
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“my personal learning has been that the principal-agent problem drives so much in this world. It’s an incentives problem.”
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“avoid people who got rich quickly, they’re just giving you their winning lottery ticket numbers.”
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“A busy calendar and a busy mind will destroy your ability to do great things in this world. If you want to be able to do great things, whether you’re a musician, or whether you are an entrepreneur, or whether you’re an investor, you need free time and you need a free mind.”
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“We’re talking about getting wealthy so you can retire, so you have your freedom. Not retire in the sense that you don’t do anything. But in the sense that you don’t have to be any place you don’t want to be, you don’t have to do anything you don’t want to do, you can wake up when you want, you can sleep when you want, you don’t have a boss. That’s freedom.”
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“You’ve got one life on this planet. Why not try to build something big? This is the beauty of Elon Musk, and why I think he inspires so many people, it's just because he takes on really, really big audacious tasks. And he provides an example for people to think big. And it takes a lot of work to build even small things. I don’t think the corner grocery store owner is working any less hard than Elon Musk, or pouring any less sweat and toil into it. Maybe even more.”
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