Naval Ravikant on Work Quotes

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

"Play long-term games with long-term people. All returns in life, whether in wealth, relationships, or knowledge, come from compound interest."

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

"Fortunes require leverage. Business leverage comes from capital, people, and products with no marginal cost of replication."

"Free education is abundant, all over the internet. It’s the desire to learn that’s scarce."

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

"Earn with your mind, not your time."

"Arm yourself with specific knowledge, accountability, and leverage."

"You’re not going to get rich renting out your time. You must own equity - a piece of a business - to gain your financial freedom."

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

"Don't take yourself so seriously. You're just a monkey with a plan."

"Wealth is assets that earn while you sleep."

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

"Building specific knowledge will feel like play to you but will look like work to others."

"In an age of infinite leverage, judgment is the most important skill."

"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."

"Code and media are permissionless leverage. They're the leverage behind the newly rich. You can create software and media that works for you while you sleep."

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

"Hard work is overrated. Judgment is underrated."

"Productize yourself."

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

"The most important skill for getting rich is becoming a perpetual learner."

"You will get rich by giving society what it wants but does not yet know how to get. At scale."

"Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true."

"Pick an industry where you can play long term games with long term people."

"You want to be paid for your unique perspective, not for your labor."

"If you find yourself in a fair competition, you are already losing."

"Building a business is a creative act. It’s a way to express yourself in the world."

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

"Working for someone else is just a way to learn how to work for yourself."

"The modern genius is the person who can do something once and have it scale forever."

"Value your time at an hourly rate and never do anything that is worth less than that rate."

"If you are not the best at what you do, someone else will automate you."