Naval Ravikant on Success Quotes

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

"If you want to make the maximum amount of money, you have to take the maximum amount of risk early on."

"Intentions don't matter. Actions do. That's why being the type of person who gets things done is more important than any goal."

"The only real test of intelligence is if you get what you want out of life."

"Retirement is when you stop sacrificing today for an imaginary tomorrow. When today is complete, in and of itself, you’re retired."

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

"The people who succeed are the irrationally passionate. Rational people don't get anything done."

"If you want to be successful, surround yourself with people who are more successful than you. If you want to be happy, surround yourself with people who are less successful than you."

"Escape competition through authenticity. No one can compete with you on being you."

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

"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."

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

"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."

"If you can’t code, write books and blogs, record videos and podcasts."

"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."

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

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

"Reading is faster than listening. Doing is faster than watching."

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

"Set up systems, not goals. Use your judgment to figure out what kind of environments you can thrive in, and then create an environment around you so you’re statistically likely to succeed."

"Seek wealth, not money or status. Wealth is having assets that earn while you sleep. Money is how we transfer time and wealth. Status is your place in the social hierarchy."

"Don’t partner with cynics and pessimists. Their beliefs are self-fulfilling."

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

"Set and enforce an aspirational personal hourly rate. If fixing a problem will save less than your hourly rate, ignore it."

"Judgment requires experience, but can be built faster by learning foundational skills."

"The internet has massively broadened the possible space of careers. Most people haven't figured this out yet."

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

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

"Embrace accountability, and take business risks under your own name. Society will reward you with responsibility, equity, and leverage."

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

"You should be too busy to ‘do coffee,’ while still keeping an uncluttered calendar."

"When you’re finally wealthy, you’ll realize that it wasn’t what you were seeking in the first place."