Naval Ravikant Quotes

Indian American entrepreneur and investor

Naval Ravikant (born November 5, 1974) is an Indian-born American entrepreneur and investor. He is the co-founder and chairman of AngelList, a platform for startups, investors, and job seekers. He is an angel investor who has made early-stage investments in companies including Uber, Twitter, Postmates, and Yammer.
Ravikant is a recipient of the Edmund Hillary Fellowship. He also co-hosts a podcast with Brett Hall.

Self-awareness is the most attractive trait.

Your best work comes through you, not from you.

It’s a race between technology-driven abundance and government-driven poverty.

The less scheduled you are, the more creative you’re going to be.

Be like family to your friends, a friend to strangers, and a stranger to your enemies.

Nothing will make you more productive than owning your time.

Nothing will make you less productive than selling it.

Most of the culture wars are a struggle between what’s best for the children and what’s best for the childless.

If you have to do it, it’s work. If you want to do it, it’s play.

The great ones don’t do it for money or fame or power.

Or to build an institution, or to help others, or to save the world.

Like a child tinkering, they create it for its own sake.

Free of the burden of ambition.

Deaf to the demands of the world.

Choose the non-emotional response to any given situation and see how much easier your life becomes.

The single biggest wealth hack is living in the future.

The most important right is the right to be left alone.

The devil doesn’t rob you, he tempts you.

He buys your dreams for glitter and dust.

He has no use for your soul, but by taking his offer, you give yours away.

And you have no one to blame but yourself.

Time is money but money is not time.

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