Naval Ravikant

“Every time you stop learning and earning, move to the next spot, and then you can apply the Naval Ravikant. Like, How to get rich. Like, really, really rich. But only after you're not broke. And when you're not, when you're broke, all you focus on is getting o…”

“Hard work is, you know, respectable and admired and yes, we should work hard, but hard work can only get you a two or three X improvement in what you're doing. And if you don't learn to improve how you're working or the elegance or improve your leverage, like …”

“He talks about how you know, you'll never get rich renting your time. And I actually don't agree with that. I mean, mathematically it's not true. Like Sheryl Sandberg, quite rich. Always been an employee.”

“You can probably be equally effective by just, like by having emotional detachment, rather than having, like, being all in, all consumed, emotionally, like, wringing yourself out every day, feeling massive stress about everything that you're doing”

“But if you were mired in something else, just like, plodding along on not the biggest opportunity, rather than having the space to jump on the best opportunity, When it came about, then you might miss it. And like, that's the live like a lion kind of mindset i…”

“All the difference between a day laborer and Zillow is just like, how leveraged are you and how comfortable are you using each of those different forms of leverage?”

“The modern forms of leverage are code, media, and capital. Zero marginal cost and uncapped and accesses this sort of global marketplace.”

“In particular, if you're young, I feel like it's hard to it's hard to appreciate that what, how lucky some people are getting is actually 20 years of, like, Carefully grown seeds and reputation and relationships and effort and like you shouldn't expect to get …”

“If you grind and beat yourself up, and have this brutal internal monologue, and, like, Right, all the way to, like, winning the game, finally achieving all these things that you hope to the whole time, you have the same epiphany that you can have right now, wh…”