208 Quotes by Naval Ravikant (Page 2 of 2)

We didn't set out to build a product. We set out to solve a problem.

Stop caring about impact and just be the best version of you possible -- then you'll naturally have an impact.

What the world craves is authenticity.

It's ok to grieve, it's a form of love.

I want to be able to just be me. I never want to be in an environment or around people where I have to watch what I say.

Anyone around whom I can't be fully honest, I don't want to be around.

Honesty plus love will get you through most situations.

When you're dishonest with yourself, you're disconnected from reality. You're going to make poor decisions. You're going to drop out of the moment and you're going to be less happy and you're going to be wrong.

All the problems of older times were scarcity… now they're all abundance based.

There are no get rich quick schemes. That's just someone else getting rich off you.

What you do, and how you do it, is so much more important than how hard you do it.

Making money is not a thing that you do -- it's a skill that you learn.

You don't get rich by spending your time to save money. You get rich by saving your time to make money.

Money doesn't buy happiness -- it buys freedom.

You can have the mind or you can have the moment.

Any meeting with eight people sitting around at a conference table, nothing is getting done in that meeting. You are literally just dying one hour at a time.

Be present. Be meditative. Form real friendships. Stay away from business networking events or friendships where there is always an underlying business angle.

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.

I think it just helps to be very aware that fundamentally, there are no adults. Everyone is making it up as they go along. You have to find your own path, picking, choosing, taking and discarding as you see fit.

I think almost everything about humans and human civilization is explained better by evolution than anything else.

True happiness comes out of peace. Peace comes out of many things, but it comes from fundamentally understanding yourself.

As long as you can keep taking shots on goal, and you keep getting back up, eventually you'll get through. Just stick at it.

Most of modern life, all our diseases, are diseases of abundance, not diseases of scarcity.

People spend too much time doing and not enough time thinking about what they should be doing.

You do not want to compete, you want to be a market of one.

You have one life. You're dead for tens of billions of years, and you're going to be dead for tens of billions of years.

A busy calendar and a busy mind will destroy your ability to create anything great.

No one is going to value you more than you value yourself.

Most of life is a search for who and what needs you the most.

It's only pain that can make you change.

Get wealthy, get healthy, get happy.

Once you're calm and fit, you have everything worth having, as the rest just comes and goes.

If you want to save the world, save your little corner of the world.

Cynicism is easy. Mimicry is easy. Optimistic contrarians are the rarest breed.

You make your own luck if you stay at it long enough.

People who have the ability to fail in public under their own names actually gain a lot of power.

True rewards -- wealth, knowledge, love, fitness, and equanimity -- come from ignoring others and improving ourselves.

The phrase that I use the most to myself in my head is one word: accept.

The more someone is saying that they're moral, ethical, and high integrity, the less likely they are to be that way.

In terms of picking people to work with, pick ones that have high intelligence, high energy, and high integrity.

Don't do things that you know are morally wrong. Not because someone is watching, but because you are. Self-esteem is just the reputation that you have with yourself. You'll always know.

Living a life of integrity pays off, but it takes a very long time.

Integrity is when what you think and what you say and what you do are one.

Once the Internet came along, I think it destroyed everyone's attention span. Now all of humanity's works are available to you at any given time and you're being interrupted constantly. Our attention span goes down, our ability to focus goes down.

Time spent undistracted and alone, in self-examination, journaling, meditation, resolves the unresolved and takes us from mentally fat to fit.

Just focus on the one or two really really important things, and everything else, just surrender to it.

This may be the last generation that has a powerful tool like the Internet, and the focused attention span to do deep work.

Your mind isn't unfocused. It's just focused on something that another part of your mind want's it to be focused on. This creates self-conflict.

I think the ability is to singularly focus is related to the ability to lose yourself and be present, happy, and actually, ironically, more effective.

Too much sugar leads to a heavy body, and too many distractions lead to a heavy mind.

Doctors won't make you healthy. Nutritionists won't make you slim. Teachers won't make you smart. Gurus won't make you calm. Mentors won't make you rich. Trainers won't make you fit. Ultimately, you have to take responsibility. Save yourself.

Even better than being loved is being in love.

Happiness is a choice and a skill and you can dedicate yourself to learning that skill and making that choice.

With my desire to improve everything, I destroy the moment.

Happiness is a state where nothing is missing.

Happiness comes from peace. Peace comes from indifference.

Happiness is the default state. It's what's there when you remove the sense that something is missing in life.