Naval Ravikant Quotes

Charging for the blue check moves it from a status symbol to a utilitarian one.

It elicits shrieks because it’s more about leveling the playing field than making money.

When choosing between investments, ask yourself, “where is my dollar going to work the hardest?”

When judgement becomes sufficiently refined, we call it taste.

You can have the mind or you can have the moment.

All models rely on a small set of critical assumptions.

A good (simple) model uncovers them, while a bad (complicated) model obscures them.

Elites control money and mass media, but crowd funding and social media now dominant. Bernie and Trump are just first of many insurgents.

Forty hour workweeks are a relic of the Industrial Age. Knowledge workers function like athletes — train and sprint, then rest and reassess.

Equal opportunity and equal outcome are opposing models.

The best way, perhaps the only way, to change others is to become an example.

Better to find a new audience than to write for the audience.

The challenge of the next decade is not Artificial Intelligence, but Human Intelligence. Can we retrain the workforce as knowledge workers?

All benefits in life come from compound interest, whether in money, relationships, love, health, activities, or habits.

The more easily you get offended, the less intelligent you actually are.

Reality is that which does not go away when you stop thinking about it.

Politics and merit are opposite ends of a spectrum.

More political organizations are less productive, have less inequality, and top performers opt out.

More merit based organizations have higher productivity, more inequality, and higher odds of internal fracture.