Naval Ravikant Quotes

Wizardry is real, you just have to learn the incantations.

Which games you play is more important than how well you play them.

Society, business, & money are downstream of technology, which is itself downstream of science. Science applied is the engine of humanity. Corollary: Applied Scientists are the most powerful people in the world. This will be more obvious in the coming years.

If they can silence you for one reason, they can silence you for any reason.

You do need to be deep in something because otherwise you’ll be a mile wide and an inch deep and you won’t get what you want out of life. You can only achieve mastery in one or two things. It’s usually things you’re obsessed about. [74]

The selfish reason to drop envy is that it’s an illusion. It creates fake enmity, accomplishes nothing, and you wouldn’t swap your entire self with them anyway.

Study a field in which you can apply mathematics and have the conclusions validated or refuted by contact with free markets or physical reality.

All the con men I’ve ever known con themselves first and foremost.

If you're selling, your job isn't to sell, it's to build trust.

The most popular product tends to become the “best” product, as it can amortize its R&D budget across a larger base.

The rich don’t have better products, they just have weirder products (to signal that they’re rich).

Politics is sports writ large - pick a side, rally the tribe, exchange stories confirming bias, hurl insults and threats at the other side.

The real fault-line isn’t left vs right - it’s centralized vs decentralized.

Every dollar printed is a vote for Bitcoin.

Read what you love until you love to read.

My immigrant Uber driver marvels at how well Americans treat their dogs. He suggests that Americans could adopt poor people instead.