1. The Best Time to Start Your Own Company Was 5 Years, The Second Best Time is Today: “Right now and going forward, whatever time it takes to get through the other side, it’s going to be the best time in the history of mankind to ever start a business because there are no rules. Everything is open for negotiation.” – Mark Cuban
2. The Best Time to Start Your Podcast Was 5 Years, The Second Best Time is Today: It’s still the early, early, days of podcasting. The rate of listenership is increasing faster than the rate of new podcasts being started. – Pat Flynn
3. How to Start With Nothing and Win:
- Find where the forward-thinking, intelligent people live and move there
- Find out what industry those people work in
- Find out what specific skills you can develop that don’t feel like work for you
- Find ethical, honorable, and open-minded people. Go work for them for free or close to it for a month in exchange for letting you shadow them
- Naval
4. Choose to Waste Hours Or You’ll Waste Years: “People waste years of their lives not being willing to waste hours of their lives. the need to always be busy can stop people from realizing what’s actually important” – Michael Lewis
5. I Wanna be a Billionaire, so F-ckin Bad: ““How does this wealth arise? It’s if you organize people in a better way to produce products and services that are better than what existed before and you have some ownership in that company then that essentially gives you the right to allocate more capital” – Elon Musk
6. Let’em Fail: “If a consumer mismanages his finances and goes bankrupt, why shouldn’t a business?” – Chamath Palihapitiya
7. Even Warren Buffet Is Staying Fearful When Others Are Fearful: With $135B in Cash “We have not done anything because we don’t see anything that attractive to do” – Warren Buffet
8. The Government Only Knows How to Take Your Money: “The US government is excellent at extracting money from its citizens, but when it came time to give people their $1,200 check, they were absolutely clueless on how to do it” – John Robb
9. Typhoid Mary Was Security Theater and She Was Abused: Hundreds of other typhus carriers were identified, many of whom were also cooks, yet only Mary was forcibly isolated and used as a media scapegoat. She remained under forced quarantine until her death. “It was more about making people feel safe than actually making them safe” – Sean Cole
10. We’re Born to be Drug Addicts:
- Dopamine is the reward chemical–it’s released in short bursts which encourages the body to repeat the activity to get more of it
- Oxytocin is the social trust chemical–touch and sex stimulates it
- Serotonin is the status chemical–it increases as you rise up the social hierarchy
- Cortisol is the stress chemical–it warns you of an immediate threat - Lorette Breuning
11. Bitcoin Is Growing Up: “This thing is not a toy anymore, and it’s maybe not an asset anymore as well. It is going to be much bigger than that.” — Plan₿
12. Flexing on IG is Dumb and Nothing New: “Long before there was Instagram or Facebook, people were buying things they couldn’t afford to impress people they deep-down resented” – Gary V
13. American’s Greatest Fear is Each Other: “I think it’s fair to say that today, Americans hate and fear each other far more than they hate and fear the Russians or the Chinese”– Yuval Noah Harari
14. Who’s Your Daddy? Today, 40% of children are born to unmarried mothers, up from 10-15% in the 70’s/80’s – Andrew Yang
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