Naval Ravikant Quotes

Fantastic advice: '@cdixon: If you aren't getting rejected on a daily basis, your goals aren't ambitious enough.'

Mathematics is the language of nature. Perhaps we can teach and learn it more easily as such.

The Internet has massively broadened the possible space of careers. Most people haven't figured this out yet.

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.

No routine, I'm famously unscheduled.

The tools for learning are abundant. It’s the desire to learn that’s scarce.

Smart partners negotiate fair deals because they know that lopsided deals are fragile and that most value accumulates in long term trust relationships.

You can tell a lot about a potential partner by their opening offer.

Teaching is pure, the urge to teach is not.

The enemy of peace of mind is expectations drilled into you by society and other people.

Happiness (if you want it):*

1. Meet basic needs

2. Avoid cheap dopamine

3. Leave the past alone

4. Limit desires to ones achievable at the edge of your capability

5. Find something beyond yourself (mission, children, God)

*Most people want something else.

The teacher is the lesson.

The important thing is to do something every day. It doesn’t matter what it is. The best workout for you is one you’re excited enough to do every day. [4]

Looking forward to the election when it's Jack vs Zuck.

The only truly wasted time is time spent wishing you were somewhere else.

There are 10x engineers because there are 10x thinkers.