Naval Ravikant
17 quotes.
Quotes by Naval Ravikant
- A fit body, a calm mind, a house full of love. These things cannot be bought – they must be earned.
- 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.
- 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.
- Don’t make decisions out of fear. Don’t make them out of greed, either.
- In terms of picking people to work with, pick ones that have high intelligence, high energy, and high integrity.
- In the modern world, don’t minimize your risks – maximize your opportunities.
- Integrity is when what you think and what you say and what you do are one.
- People think they can’t change themselves, but they can. People think they can change others, but they can’t.
- 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.
- The basis for friendship, relationship, partnership – isn’t proximity or time spent together – it’s values.
- The calmer you are, the clearer you think.
- The measure of wisdom is how calm you are when facing any given situation.
- There are basically three really big decisions you make in your early life: where you live, who you’re with, and what you’re doing.
- Three things in life – your health, your mission, and the people you love. That’s it.
- Wisdom is really about figuring the long-term consequences of your actions.
- You can get almost anything you want out of life, as long as it’s one thing and you want it far more than anything else.
- You have to do hard things to create your own meaning in life.