Naval Ravikant on Work Quotes

"A busy calendar and a busy mind are the enemies of high-level leverage and great ideas."

"Wealth is having assets that earn while you sleep."

"Don't do things that you don't want to do, but do the things you want to do with all your heart."

"Specific knowledge is found by pursuing your genuine curiosity and passion rather than whatever is hot right now."

"The modern world is a place where you can be a solo creator and have the leverage of a thousand people."

"If you can’t code, write books and blogs, record podcasts and videos. Use media to scale your ideas."

"Suffering is a moment of clarity, when you can no longer deny the truth of a situation and are forced into uncomfortable change."

"If they can train you to do it, then eventually they will train a computer to do it."

"The best way to get lucky is to be the best at what you do."

"Iterate until you find something that you can be the best in the world at."

"Status is a zero-sum game. Wealth is a positive-sum game."

"Work like a lion, not a sheep. Sprint, then rest, then reassess."

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

"The modern world is a meritocracy for ideas, not for hours."

"The tools for learning are abundant. It’s the desire to learn that’s scarce."

"The best work is the work you would do for free if you were rich."

"The modern world is a performance-based world. You are paid for the value you create, not the hours you put in."

"If you don't own a piece of a business, you don't have a path towards financial freedom."

"The direction you are heading is more important than how fast you are going."

"If you can’t outsource it, you must automate it or delete it."

"Forty hour work weeks are a relic of the Industrial Age. Knowledge workers function like athletes - train and sprint, then rest and reassess."

"Find the thing that looks like work to others but feels like play to you."

"Intentions don't matter. Actions do. That’s why being is more important than doing, but doing is how you get to being."

"The modern world is obsessed with productivity, but the most productive people are those who do less."

"Productize yourself."

"A great team is one where everyone is an owner."

"Retirement is when you stop sacrificing today for an imaginary tomorrow."

"Work as hard as you can. Even though who you work with and what you work on are more important than how hard you work."

"Iterate until you find product-market fit between your personality and the world. Don't change yourself, change your application."

"Wealth is what you earn while you sleep. Motivation gets you started; leverage keeps you going."

"The efficiency of the brain is based on the ability to ignore the noise."

"Your goal is to find the things you can do that feel like play to you, but look like work to others."

"Apply specific knowledge, with leverage, and eventually you will get what you deserve."