Naval Ravikant Quotes

Indian American entrepreneur and investor

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Naval Ravikant (born November 5, 1974) is an Indian-born American entrepreneur and investor. He is the co-founder and chairman of AngelList, a platform for startups, investors, and job seekers. He is an angel investor who has made early-stage investments in companies including Uber, Twitter, Postmates, and Yammer.
Ravikant is a recipient of the Edmund Hillary Fellowship. He also co-hosts a podcast with Brett Hall.

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Code compounds, which favors founder-led engineering teams.

The virus doesn’t change who your friends are, it reveals who your friends are.

A saved tweet is a tweet never sent.

If you want to learn macroeconomics, first read Adam Smith, read von Mises, or read Hayek. Start with the original philosophers of the economy. If you’re into communist or socialist ideas (which I’m personally not), start by reading Karl Marx. Don’t read the current interpretation someone is feeding you about how things should be done and run.

Meditation is turning off society and listening to yourself.

It’s not the thing itself we fear, it’s our reaction to it.

The modern secular religion casts humanity as the devil and the state as the savior.

Questions nearly everything Can think from first principles Tests things well Is good at not fooling himself Changes his mind regularly Laughs a lot Thinks holistically Thinks long-term And…doesn’t take himself too goddamn seriously.

Technology is creative - original solutions to problems, bounded by nature (science) and social demand (business).

Freedom from Employment People who live far below their means enjoy a freedom that people busy upgrading their lifestyles can’t fathom. [11] Once you’ve truly controlled your own fate, for better or for worse, you’ll never let anyone else tell you what to do. [11] A taste of freedom can make you unemployable.

Knowledge workers train, sprint, rest, and re-assess.

Choosing to Free Yourself The hardest thing is not doing what you want — it’s knowing what you want. Be aware there are no “adults.” Everyone makes it up as they go along. You have to find your own path, picking, choosing, and discarding as you see fit. Figure it out yourself, and do it. [71] How have your values changed? When I was younger, I really, really valued freedom. Freedom was one of my core values. Ironically, it still is. It’s probably one of my top three values, but it’s now a different definition of freedom. My old definition was “freedom to.” Freedom to do anything I want. Freedom to do whatever I feel like, whenever I feel like. Now, the freedom I’m looking for is internal freedom. It’s “freedom from.” Freedom from reaction. Freedom from feeling angry. Freedom from being sad. Freedom from being forced to do things. I’m looking for “freedom from,” internally and externally, whereas before I was looking for “freedom to.” [4] Advice to my younger self: “Be exactly who you are.” Holding back means staying in bad relationships and bad jobs for years instead of minutes.

The best sci-if really belongs in the non-fiction category.

Founder mentality: If you think like an owner, and you act like an owner, it’s only a matter of time until you become an owner.

Focus your awareness upon you, because you’re the easiest thing to overlook.