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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Don’t partner with pessimists

A saved tweet is a tweet never sent.

If you can speed read it, it isn't worth reading.

Upcoming deregulation wave will create an economic sonic boom.

I started realizing it’s all about habits. At any given time, I’m either trying to pick up a good habit or discard a previous bad habit. It takes time.

Resist censorship.

Resist lawfare.

Resist disarmament.

Everything else is downstream.

New iPhones need new capabilities, not new specs.

I take Naval seriously because he: 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.

Media travels and earns while you sleep. It searches the world for opportunities for you. Code is even better.

Understand that ethical wealth creation is possible. If you secretly despise wealth, it will elude you.

What entrepreneurs crave in investors is conviction.

Don't work for a company that won't give you the information to properly value your shares.

For example, let’s say you’re the best person in the world at deep-sea diving. You’re known to take on deep-sea dives nobody else will even dare to attempt. By sheer luck, somebody finds a sunken treasure ship off the coast they can’t get to. Well, their luck just became your luck, because they’re going to come to you to get to the treasure, and you’re going to get paid for it. This is an extreme example, but it shows how one person had blind luck finding the treasure. Them coming to you to extract it and give you half is not blind luck. You created your own luck. You put yourself in a position to capitalize on luck or to attract luck when nobody else created the opportunity for themselves. To get rich without getting lucky, we want to be deterministic. We don’t want to leave it to chance. [78]

There are entire societies based on the idea that “hours in the office” matter.

Pay double and insist on ten times the quality.