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• Prior preparation prevents poor performance.

  Business and Entrepreneurship

• You are not truly in the game unless you find yourself in the dead of night, head in hands, sitting in the dark, with no idea what to do next.

  Business and Entrepreneurship

• A well-executed product feels like it was built by one person.

  — Brian NorgardBusiness and Entrepreneurship

• If the work does not require creativity, delegate it, automate it, or leave it.

  — Naval RavikantBusiness and Entrepreneurship

• Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.

  — Naval RavikantBusiness and Entrepreneurship

• Ask for money, get advice. Ask for advice, get money twice.

  Business and Entrepreneurship

• Any time I have seen someone accomplishing something magnificent, they have been a monomaniac with a mission: a single-minded individual with a passion.

  — Peter F. DruckerBusiness and Entrepreneurship

• Reconnect with the mission of your company.

  — Steve JobsBusiness and Entrepreneurship

• The secret currency of Silicon Valley is deals shared, talent referred, and acquirers introduced.

  — Naval RavikantBusiness and Entrepreneurship

• Be good at marketing and you will never need sales.

  Business and Entrepreneurship

• No meetings before eleven. No meetings when emails or calls will do. Cram all meetings into two days a week. Meetings are the death of productivity.

  — Naval RavikantBusiness and Entrepreneurship

• Solve via iteration. Then get paid via repetition.

  Business and Entrepreneurship

• Venture investing is making a series of small bets where you have a knowledge or access edge, with limitless upside and limited downside.

  — Naval RavikantInvesting

• When building a portfolio of investments that can have non-linear outcomes, never sell early. You may be right most of the time, but the one time you are wrong will cost you most of the returns.

  — Naval RavikantInvesting

• Far more money has been lost by investors preparing for corrections, or trying to anticipate them, than has been lost in the corrections themselves.

  — Peter LynchInvesting

• Do not try to predict the future, prepare for it. Predicting rain does not count. Building arks does.

  — Warren BuffettInvesting

• The future should be viewed not as a fixed outcome capable of being predicted, but as a range of possibilities: a probability distribution.

  — Howard MarksInvesting

• Guaranteed high returns are usually just concealed blowup risk.

  — Naval RavikantInvesting

• Whether you are excited or nervous when your favorite asset falls in price marks whether you are investing or merely speculating.

  — Naval RavikantInvesting

• The best investors do not talk about their returns.

  — Naval RavikantInvesting

• When choosing between investments, ask where your dollar will work the hardest.

  — Naval RavikantInvesting

• Knowing is half the battle. Analyze, think independently, be informed, find the data, and you will know a lot that no one else does.

  — Michael BurryInvesting

• Valid reasons for selling: you have completely lost faith in the project, you can redeploy into a better investment after tax, it accounts for too much of your net worth, or you have a worthwhile personal expenditure to make.

  — Naval RavikantInvesting

• Diversify by geography, sector, and currency. Keep no more than a small percentage in any one position, keep cash on hand, and only spend interest, not principal.

  — Kevin O'LearyInvesting

• All the benefits in life come from compound interest: relationships, money, habits, anything of importance.

  — Naval RavikantInvesting