~Thread of quotes~

1) I don’t care how rich you are. I don’t care whether you’re a top Wall Street banker. If somebody has to tell you when to be at work, what to wear and how to behave, you’re not a free person. You’re not actually rich.

~ @naval

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2) If it doesn't harm your character, how can it harm your life?

~ Marcus Aurelius
3) Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.

~ Socrates
4) No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself. 

~ Pythagoras
5) Fear, greed and hope have destroyed more portfolio value than any recession or depression we have ever been through.

~ @jposhaughnessy
6) The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

~ Sun Tzu
7) There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

~ Alexander the Great
8) The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

~ Richard Feynman
9) A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

~ Charles Darwin
10) Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world.

~ Miyamoto Musashi
11) When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favour.

~ @elonmusk
12) You should not honour men more than truth.

~ Plato
13) If there is something in nature you don’t understand, odds are it makes sense in a deeper way that is beyond your understanding.

~ @nntaleb
14) Anger is a hot coal that you hold in your hand whilst waiting to strike another.

~ Buddhaghosa
15) To offend a stupid person, attack their status.

To offend an intelligent person, waste their time.

~ The Stoic Empire
16) To get what you want, you have to deserve what you want. The world is not yet a crazy enough place to reward a whole bunch of undeserving people.

~ Charlie Munger
17) There is nothing outside of yourself that can ever enable you to get better, stronger, richer, quicker, or smarter. Everything is within. Everything exists. Seek nothing outside of yourself.

~ Miyamoto Musashi
18) There is no fear for one whose mind is not filled with desires.

~ Buddha
19) Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself.

~ Epictetus
20) Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.

~ Socrates
21) Be the change that you wish to see in the world.

~ Mahatma Gandhi
22) If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

~ Mark Twain
23) If you knew what I know about the power of giving, you would not let a single meal pass without sharing it in some way.

~ Buddha
24) Those who tell the stories rule society.

~ Plato
25) If you're going to be employed, make sure it's temporary.

~ @LifeMathMoney
26) The hallmark of independent thinking is disbelief in the fashionable religions of the day.

~ @naval
27) Don’t let people who hate you tell you what to do.

~ @TheStoicEmperor
28) Your library is the books you re-read.

Your mindset is the thoughts you recall.

Your life is the actions you repeat.

~ The Stoic Empire
29) Friends are the people who show up when the risk is greater than the reward.

~ @AscendantPower
30) Your neighbor's success is not your failure.

~ @Kpaxs
31) For greed, all of nature is too little.

~ Seneca
32) I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.

~ Richard Feynman
33) It's only when the tide goes out that you discover who's been swimming naked.

~ Warren Buffet
34) We should reward people, not ridicule them, for thinking the impossible.

~ @nntaleb
35) To find yourself, think for yourself.

~ Socrates
36) Desire is a contract you make with yourself, to be unhappy until you get what you want.

~ @naval
37) Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

~ Marcus Aurelius
38) Society values the illusion of happiness (social media) over the real thing (internal peace).

Society values the illusion of wealth (debt) over the real thing (financial freedom).

Society values the illusion of character (status) over the real thing (internal reputation).
39) What I cannot create, I do not understand.

~ Richard Feynman
40) Accept everything just the way it is.

~ Miyamoto Musashi
41) Do not look for a sanctuary in anyone except your self.

~ Buddha
42) Whether you think you can, or you think you can't -you're right.

~ Henry Ford
43) First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

~ Epictetus
44) Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence.

~ Pythagoras
45) When you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing.

~ Mathew 6: 1-4
46) Success tests humility. Failure tests mastery.

~ The Stoic Empire
47) You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

~ Henry Ford
48) A fit body, a calm mind, a house full of love. These things cannot be bought - they must be earned.

~ @naval
49) Never memorize something that you can look up.

~ Albert Einstein
50) He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche
51) No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

~ Rudolph Kipling
52) All disturbances arise solely from the opinions within us.

~ Marcus Aurelius
A favourite of mine:

53) The human mind is a delusion generator, not a window to truth.

~ @ScottAdamsSays
54) Reading is the ultimate meta-skill that can be traded for anything else.

~ @naval
55) Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.

~ Richard Feynman
56) Scarcity sharpens you. Abundance ruins you.

~ The Stoic Empire
57) No man was ever wise by chance.

~ Seneca
58) Priorities are the things you need to get right so the things you love can thrive.

~ @ScottAdamsSays
59) It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong.

~ Richard P. Feynman
60) Silence the angry man with love. Silence the ill-natured man with kindness. Silence the miser with generosity. Silence the liar with truth.

~ Buddha
61) Mimicking the herd invites regression to the mean.

~ Charlie Munger
62) Upgrade your library, not your materialistic status.

~ The Stoic Empire
63) Those who tell the stories rule society.

~ Plato
64) Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

~ Seneca
65) If you want to be happy, teach your brain to see the truth in every situation.

~ The Stoic Empire
66) Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

~ Aristotle
67) Assume life will be really tough, and then ask if you can handle it. If the answer is yes, you have won.

~ Charlie Munger
68) The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

~ Henry Ford
69) Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.

~ Maya Angelou
70) The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

~ Isaac Asimov
71) That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.

~ Christopher Hitchens
72) If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.

~ Isaac Newton
73) Time heals what reason cannot.

~ Seneca
74) Saying "I don't know" is a sign of intelligence.

~ The Stoic Empire
75) Your body and bank account are the physical and monetary manifestations of your vices and virtues.

~ @AscendantPower
76) Adapt what you do until you derive happiness from mere existence.

~ The Stoic Empire
77) From one thing, know ten thousand things.

~ Miyamoto Musashi
78) Knowledge is a skyscraper. You can take a shortcut with a fragile foundation of memorization, or build slowly upon a steel frame of understanding.

~ @naval
79) Failure always brings something valuable with it. I don’t let it leave until I extract that value.

~ @ScottAdamsSays
80) Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.

~ Plato
81) The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.

~ Confucius
82) If you are depressed you are living in the past.
If you are anxious you are living in the future.
If you are at peace you are living in the present.

~ Lao Tzu
83) The best armour of old age is a well spent life preceding it.

~ Charlie Munger
84) A rational person can find peace by cultivating indifference to things outside their control.

~ @naval
85) The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

~ Epictetus
86) To be even minded is the greatest virtue.

~ Heraclitus
87) Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.

~ Confucius
88) Another fantastic quote:

Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion.

~ @ScottAdamsSays
89) Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.

~ Richard Feynman
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