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Naval 25

Naval's 25 best quotes, as voted on by the internet

#1
A rational person can find peace by cultivating indifference to things outside of their control.
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#2
A rational person can find peace by cultivating indifference to things outside their control.
148

Earn with your mind, not your time.

147

#4
Trade money for time, not time for money. You’re going to run out of time first.
121

Learn to sell. Learn to build. If you can do both, you will be unstoppable.

119

#6
The only true test of intelligence is if you get what you want out of life.
118
#7
You’re never going to get rich renting out your time.
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#8
Wealth is assets that earn while you sleep
114
#9
The quality of your mind is the quality of your life.
111

#10

Your success in life depends on your ability to make good decisions. Your happiness depends on your ability to not care about the outcomes.

110

#11
Escape competition through authenticity.
108
#12
The best way, perhaps the only way, to change others is to become an example.
106
#13
Following your genuine intellectual curiosity is a better foundation for a career than following whatever is making money right now.
105
#14
Play long-term games with long-term people. All returns in life, whether in wealth, relationships, or knowledge, come from compound interest.
104

#15

Free people make free choices. Free choices mean you get unequal outcomes. You can have freedom, or you can have equal outcomes. You can’t have both.

103

#16
You want to be rich and anonymous, not poor and famous.
103
#17
Sing the song that only you can sing, write the book that only you can write, build the product that only you can build… live the life that only you can live.
102
#18
A fit body, a calm mind, a house full of love. These things cannot be bought — they must be earned.
102
#19
The most important trick to be happy is to realize that happiness is a choice that you make and a skill that you develop. You choose to be happy, and then you work at it. It’s just like building muscles.
101

#20

If you don’t love yourself who will?

100

#21
Who you do business with is just as important as what you choose to do.
97
#22
Busy is the death of productivity.
96
#23
The universe is rigged in such a way that if you just want one thing and you focus on that, you will get it. But everything else, you got to let go.
96
#24
Forty hour workweeks are a relic of the Industrial Age. Knowledge workers function like athletes — train and sprint, then rest and reassess.
96
#25
You make your own luck if you stay at it long enough.
96

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