HOW TO GET RICH Quotes

“The problem is that to win at a status game, you have to put somebody else down. That’s why you should avoid status games in your life because they make you into an angry combative person. You’re always fighting to put other people down, to put yourself and the people you like up.”
― Naval Ravikant, HOW TO GET RICH:

“Emotions are what prevent you from seeing what’s actually happening, until you can no longer resist the truth of what’s happening, until it becomes too sudden, and then you’re forced into suffering; which is sort of a breaking of this fantasy that you had put together.”
― Naval Ravikant, HOW TO GET RICH:

“Partner with rational optimists”
― Naval Ravikant, HOW TO GET RICH:

“Don’t partner with pessimists”
― Naval Ravikant, HOW TO GET RICH:

“So, what the internet does is allows any niche obsession,”
― Naval Ravikant, HOW TO GET RICH:

“Figure out what product you can provide and then figure out how to scale it”
― Naval Ravikant, HOW TO GET RICH:

“So, you want to look for professions and careers where the inputs and outputs are highly disconnected.”
― Naval Ravikant, HOW TO GET RICH:

“About Luck Making money isn’t about luck. It’s about becoming the kind of person who makes money. Making money isn’t about luck”
― Naval Ravikant, HOW TO GET RICH:

“I won’t even name names but when a famous economist rails on Bitcoin or when a business journalist attacks the latest company that’s IPO’ing, it’s complete nonsense. Those people have never built anything, they’re professional critics. They don’t know anything about making money. All they know is how to criticize and get pageviews. And you’re literally becoming dumber by reading them. You’re burning neurons.”
― Naval Ravikant, HOW TO GET RICH:

“If you survey enough people all the advice will cancel to zero.”
― Naval Ravikant, HOW TO GET RICH:

“Most advice is people giving you their winning lottery ticket numbers.”
― Naval Ravikant, HOW TO GET RICH:

“My definition of wisdom is knowing the long term consequences of your actions, so they’re not all that different. Wisdom is just judgment on a personal domain. Wisdom applied to external problems I think is judgment.”
― Naval Ravikant, HOW TO GET RICH:

“Judgment is knowing the long-term consequences of your actions”
― Naval Ravikant, HOW TO GET RICH:

“The best products tend to be at the center, at the sweet spot, the middle class, rather than being targeted at the upper class.”
― Naval Ravikant, HOW TO GET RICH:

“Coding is such a great superpower because now you can speak the language of the robot armies and you can tell them what to do.”
― Naval Ravikant, HOW TO GET RICH:

“It’s better to read a great book really slowly than to fly through a hundred books quickly”
― Naval Ravikant, HOW TO GET RICH:

“when you’re competing with people it’s because you’re copying them. It’s because you’re trying to do the same thing. But every human is different. Don’t copy.”
― Naval Ravikant, HOW TO GET RICH:

“One of the things I think that is important to making money, when you want the kind of reputation that makes people do deals through you. I use the example of like, if you’re a great diver then treasure hunters will come and give you a piece of the treasure for your diving skills.”
― Naval Ravikant, HOW TO GET RICH:

“Making money isn’t about luck. It’s about becoming the kind of person who makes money.”
― Naval Ravikant, HOW TO GET RICH:

“Everybody can be wealthy. Everybody can be retired. Everybody can be successful. It is merely a question of education and desire. You have to want it. If you don’t want it, that’s fine. Then you opt out of the game. But don’t try to put down the people who are playing the game. Because that’s the game that keeps you in a comfortable warm bed at night. That’s the game that keeps a roof over your head.”
― Naval Ravikant, HOW TO GET RICH:

“Everybody can be wealthy. Everybody can be retired. Everybody can be successful. It is merely a question of education and desire. You have to want it. If you don’t want it, that’s fine. Then you opt out of the game.”
― Naval Ravikant, HOW TO GET RICH:

“Wealth isn’t about taking something from somebody else—it’s about creating abundance for the world.”
― Naval Ravikant, HOW TO GET RICH:

“Wealth is assets that earn while you sleep.”
― Naval Ravikant, HOW TO GET RICH:

“I would say that, first, you’re accountable for your judgment. Judgment is the exercise of wisdom. Wisdom comes from experience; and that experience can be accelerated through short iterations.”
― Naval Ravikant, HOW TO GET RICH:

“We are the only animals in the animal kingdom that cooperate across genetic boundaries. Most animals don’t even cooperate. But when they do, they cooperate only in packs where they co-evolve together, and they share blood, so they have some shared interests.”
― Naval Ravikant, HOW TO GET RICH:

“The problem is that to win at a status game, you have to put somebody else down. That’s why you should avoid status games in your life because they make you into an angry combative person.”
― Naval Ravikant, HOW TO GET RICH:

“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.”
― Naval Ravikant, HOW TO GET RICH:

“Give Society What It Doesn’t Know How to Get Society will pay you for creating what it wants, but doesn't know how to get, and delivering it at scale.”
― Naval Ravikant, HOW TO GET RICH:

“Arm yourself with specific knowledge”
― Naval Ravikant, HOW TO GET RICH:

“We’re descended from pessimists”
― Naval Ravikant, HOW TO GET RICH: