A vacation is a very expensive way to schedule the time to read a book in peace.

Given that the main function of universities these days is filtering and signaling, the best move is to get admitted to Stanford and then drop out.

People who try to look smart by pointing out obvious exceptions actually signal the opposite.

Develop ‘strategic incompetence’ – people won’t ask you to do things you hate to do, if you’re bad at them.

If you’re smart, you should be able to figure out how to be happy. Otherwise, you’re not that smart.

Twitter is television for intellectuals.

A fit body, a calm mind, a house full of love. These things cannot be bought — they must be earned.

Less fear, more love

The way to retire is actually to find the thing that you know how to do better than anybody. And you know how to do it better than anybody because you love to do it.

If you don’t love yourself, who will?

True, unconditional love, is the province of parents and saints.

Love people more. […] It turns out you can give love. It’s free to give. […] On a long enough time scale, the universe sends it back your way.

Just be you and wait for the people who want that.

When you have children, you learn to love something more than you love yourself, and you can talk about that all day long, but you have never had that feeling until you’ve had a child.

It’s not something you can buy. No amount of money or power will bring you true, unconditional love.

Love is given, not received. 

Seek wealth, not money or status.

Wealth is assets that earn while you sleep.

Wealth creation is an evolutionarily recent positive-sum game. Status is an old zero-sum game. Those attacking wealth creation are often just seeking status.

Investing favors the dispassionate. Markets efficiently separate emotional investors from their money.

The reason you want wealth is because it buys you your freedom. So, you don’t have to wear a tie like a collar around your neck.

So, you don’t have to wake up at 7:00 AM, and rush to work, and sit in commute traffic.

The purpose of wealth is freedom. It’s nothing more than that. It’s not to buy fur coats, or drive Ferraris, or sail yachts, or jet around the world in your Gulfstream. That stuff gets really boring and really stupid, really fast.

The more worldly success you have, the more your ego gets built up. The more fearful you might be of losing it all. The more fearful my might be about what other people think. The more you have to lose. The more you get caught up in this dream of who you think you are. I think worldly success actually hurts.

Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.

We can all be wealthy, all of us.

The people who succeed are irrationally passionate about something.