Naval Ravikant Quotes
The best founders are extremely thoughtful and have an eye for quality. I don't know if there's any generic advice here that would be helpful. Startup knowledge is a moving target.
Quotes to Explore
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Patience was not something that came naturally to me, but in cooking it is the quintessential skill.
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Justice is never given; it is exacted.
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All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.
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Man is a physical and spiritual epitome of the Universe.
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I posed nude to show my parents they couldn't dictate to me any more - that I control my life.
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My attitude is always one of sensuality, aggressive enthusiasm and a kind of outrageousness in my expression.
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Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.
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I loved teaching social studies. And I loved starting each year by teaching about John Locke and the social contract. That lesson helped me teach not just about our rules for the classroom, but how, in our democracy, we give up some individual rights to ensure we collectively have the right to live and prosper in a society.
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A dead end street is a good place to turn around.
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I weighed 25 stone, and I didn't stand nine feet tall, so the weight didn't sit well on me. As big as a house? No. I was as big as an estate.
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I rolled up my sleeves and said, 'I want to make a mark on this world.'
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Thank you to the children whose innocent words encouraged me.
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You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.
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My priority is to take care of my daughter and my family.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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Not one role that I've played has been written specifically for me.
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What is Oracle? A bunch of people. And all of our products were just ideas in the heads of those people - ideas that people typed into a computer, tested, and that turned out to be the best idea for a database or for a programming language.
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Listen to my voice - I sound like I'm permanently congested.
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This country has shed more blood for the freedom of other people than all the other nations in the history of the world combined, and I'm tired of people feeling like they've got to apologize for America.
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The master said, 'Quietly to store up knowledge in my mind, to learn without flagging, to teach without growing weary, these present me with no difficulties.'
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When you have a knowledge of history, it's very soothing. When there's continuity in your life, it's soothing.
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I'd like to be remembered as somebody who set out to raise a family and pay my debts and stay within all the limits of acceptable society and still make some success.
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Our schools offer no conception of the scientific process of discovery. They do not encourage creative thought, in fact, they stifle it through too much rigidity in teaching. If we set out to give as little help as possible to originality in science, we could hardly devise a better plan than our education system. Youngsters ought to be told what is unknown about ourselves and our universe as well as what is known.
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The best founders are extremely thoughtful and have an eye for quality. I don't know if there's any generic advice here that would be helpful. Startup knowledge is a moving target.
