If you want to make the maximum amount of money possible, if you want to get rich over your life in a deterministically predictable way, stay on the bleeding edge of trends and study technology, design, and art - become really good at something.
- Naval Ravikant, from The Almanack of Naval Ravikant book by Eric Jorgenson
Stay out of things that could cause you to lose all of your capital, all of your savings. Don't gamble everything on one go. Instead, take rationally optimistic bets with big upsides.
- Naval Ravikant, from The Almanack of Naval Ravikant book by Eric Jorgenson
The combinatorics of human DNA and experience are staggering. You will never meet any two humans who are substitutable for each other.
- Naval Ravikant, from The Almanack of Naval Ravikant book by Eric Jorgenson
Learn to sell. Learn to build. If you can do both, you will be unstoppable.
- Naval Ravikant, from The Almanack of Naval Ravikant book by Eric Jorgenson
We don't always get what we want, but sometimes what is happening is for the best. The sooner you can accept it as a reality, the sooner you can adapt to it.
- Naval Ravikant, from The Almanack of Naval Ravikant book by Eric Jorgenson
We think of ourselves as fixed and the world as malleable, but it's really we who are malleable and the world is largely fixed.
- Naval Ravikant, from The Almanack of Naval Ravikant book by Eric Jorgenson
The most important skill for getting rich is becoming a perpetual learner.
- Naval Ravikant, from The Almanack of Naval Ravikant book by Eric Jorgenson
Grind and sweat, toil and bleed, face the abyss. It's all part of becoming an overnight success.
- Naval Ravikant, from The Almanack of Naval Ravikant book by Eric Jorgenson