I don't know where I'm going, but I know exactly how to get there.

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

If we take man as he is, we make him worse, but if we take man as he should be, we make him capable of becoming what he can be

Our task is to see things as they are, not how we would like them to be

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasures you seek

Only that day dawns to which we are awake

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change - Max Planck (Related: invert, always invert - Charlie Munger)

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers

Stay away from negative people, they have a problem for every solution

To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Always be prepared to think that experts are stupid. They often are.

The wise old owl: There was an old owl who lived in an oak, The more he saw, the less he spoke, The less he spoke, the more he heard, Why aren’t we all like that old bird?

What is the *next* first track?

Always more audacity

Do first things first, and second things not at all. To do anything less is to get nothing done.

We suffer more in imagination than in reality.

If you are ever tempted to look for outside approval, realize that you have compromised your own integrity. If you need a witness, be your own.

A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention (how timely in 2026).

The most effective way to do it, is to do it.

We don’t rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our practice.

The first draft of anything is always shit.

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.

To be successful you must follow one rule: never lie to yourself.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool

The Stockdale Paradox: You must never, ever confuse on the one hand the need for the unwavering faith that you can and will prevail in the end… and at the same time… the discipline to confront the most brutal facts as they actually are today.

Wisdom is prevention.

Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.