Naval Ravikant

Code and media are permissionless leverage. They're the leverage behind the newly rich, armies of robots working for you while you sleep.

You're not going to get rich renting out your time. You must own equity, a piece of a business, to gain your financial freedom.

Specific knowledge is found by pursuing your genuine curiosity rather than whatever happens to be hot right now.

In an age of leverage, judgement is the single most important skill. One good decision can be worth more than a decade of hard work.

The genuine foundations, arithmetic, persuasion, basic logic, are worth more than ninety percent of the cleverness layered on top.

Play long-term games with long-term people. All returns in life, wealth, relationships, knowledge, come from compound interest.

Escape competition through authenticity. Nobody can compete with you on being you.

The difference between successful people and very successful people is that the very successful say no to almost everything.

Desire is a contract you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want. Pick the one desire that matters and drop the rest.

Seek wealth, not money or status. Wealth is assets that earn while you sleep; money is how we transfer time and wealth.