Naval Ravikant Quotes

Indian American entrepreneur and investor

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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.

Open source means each problem only has to be solved once.

The only two ways to coordinate human societies at scale are free markets and physical power.

Any ideology rejecting free markets is just advocating for power.

Socialism, communism, and fascism all converge to the same endpoint - rule by the biggest thug.

Fasting focuses the mind - it replaces all desires with a single desire.

Replace all desires with a single desire.

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

If you want the meeting, make it an offer, not an ask.

The modern mental illness is anxiety.

The modern mental illness is anxiety.

The symptom is inability to fall asleep.
The evidence is pills, meditation apps, opioids, and sleep trackers.
The causes are oversocialization and overstimulation.

To get paid in the future, live in the future.

The true scarcity is attention, not time.

Labor means people working for you. It's the oldest and most fought-over form of leverage. Labor leverage will impress your parents, but don’t waste your life chasing it.

This election is X versus the system.

The greater the emotional content in the conversation, the more it needs to happen face-to-face.

Get paid for doing what only you can uniquely do.

Leave everything better than you found it.