Naval Ravikant Quotes

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Mathematicians look down on Physicists, who look down on Engineers, who look down on Designers. And Designers look down on everyone.

Theoretical physicist Richard Feynman famously said, “You should never, ever fool anybody, and you are the easiest person to fool.” The moment you tell somebody something dishonest, you’ve lied to yourself. Then you’ll start believing your own lie, which will disconnect you from reality and take you down the wrong road.

Most fit and healthy people focus much more on what they eat than how much. Quality control is easier than (and leads to) quantity control.

Speech, money, code, and media are all the same thing underneath. You can't free one without freeing the rest.

Forget rich versus poor, white-collar versus blue. It’s now leveraged versus un-leveraged.

Colleges have to convince students for the next year that a remote education is worth every bit as much as an in-person one, and then pivot back before students actually start believing it.

It’s like only being able to sell your competitor’s product for a year.

This seems like as good a time as any for Google to write a check to Twitter and re-incorporate realtime public data into its
search results.

Good teams fail faster so they can succeed faster.

The struggle between collectivists and individualists is as old as humanity.

It’s actually really important to have empty space. If you don’t have a day or two every week in your calendar where you’re not always in meetings, and you’re not always busy, then you’re not going to be able to think. You’re not going to be able to have good ideas for your business. You’re not going to be able to make good judgments. I also encourage taking at least one day a week (preferably two, because if you budget two, you’ll end up with one) where you just have time to think. 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. Make the time. [7]

Babies and animals are interesting to watch because they aren’t self conscious at all.

If @balajis ran the FDA, it would literally add years to the average American's life.

Resist censorship.

Resist lawfare.

Resist disarmament.

Everything else is downstream.

Read what you love until you love to read. You almost have to read the stuff you’re reading, because you’re into it. You don’t need any other reason. There’s no mission here to accomplish. Just read because you enjoy it. These days, I find myself rereading as much (or more) as I do reading. A tweet from @illacertus said, “I don’t want to read everything. I just want to read the 100 great books over and over again.” I think there’s a lot to that idea. It’s really more about identifying the great books for you because different books speak to different people. Then, you can really absorb those.