Naval Ravikant Quotes

The product I most want - a miniaturized MRI (eventually a watch or ring) to measure glucose, ketones, lactate, cholesterol, etc. in realtime, without blood and pinpricks.

Code compounds, which favors founder-led engineering teams.

The most powerful permissionless tools are the spoken word, the written word, mathematics, and the computer.

An irresistible stack of leverage for the ambitious creative.

Asymmetric opportunities:

Invest in startups
Start a company
Create a book, podcast, video
Create a (software) product
Go on many first dates
Go to a cocktail party
Read a Lindy book
Move to a big city
Buy Bitcoin
Tweet.

Criticism without creativity is just pessimism.

The honest way to critique is to create the alternative.

The purest reason to make something is not to make money and not even to make the thing.

It’s to have the experience of making the thing - and no one can take that from you.

You think you’re being productive but no, actually you’re just busy.

Guard your time. Forget the money.

Knowing how little you matter is very important for your mental health and your happiness

Tune out society and its endless and noisy demands.

Put your money where your mind is.

When you're finally wealthy, you'll realize that it wasn't what you were seeking in the first place. But that's for another day.

Art is creativity. Art is anything done for its own sake. What are the things that are done for their own sake, and there’s nothing behind them? Loving somebody, creating something, playing. To me, creating businesses is play. I create businesses because it’s fun, because I’m into the product. [77]

Figure out what you’re good at, and start helping other people with it. Give it away. Pay it forward. Karma works because people are consistent. On a long enough timescale, you will attract what you project. But don’t measure — your patience will run out if you count. [7]

It’s only after you’re bored you have the great ideas. It’s never going to be when you’re stressed, or busy, running around or rushed.