Naval Ravikant is an Indian entrepreneur and investor. He is the co-founder, chairman and former CEO of AngeList. He was Born on 5 November 1974 in new Delhi. Ravikant is a fellow of the Edmund Hillary Fellowship. As a podcaster he shares advice on pursuing health, wealth, and happiness.
Top 118 Quotes Of Naval Ravikant.
It’s easier to change yourself than to change the world.
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Most of life is a search for who and what needs you the most.
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There’s no certainty in life. You can put in the hours, you can put in the time, but you can’t really expect the outcome.
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Less fear, more love.
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If you’re going to pick 3 cards in the hand you’re dealt, take intelligence, drive, and most importantly, emotional self-discipline.
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We’re genetically wired to be pessimists, but modern society is far, far safer.
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Most of life is a search for who and what needs you the most.
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The phrase that I use the most to myself in my head is I just tell myself one word: accept.
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You can neither give happiness, nor receive it.
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Self-image is the prison. Other people are the guards.
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When you look at the greatest artists and creators, they have this ability to start over that nobody else does.
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I think a lot of us learn as we get older that happiness is internal.
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Desire is just fear by another name.
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No one is going to value you more than you value yourself.
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Every moment has to be complete in and of itself.
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The older the problem, the older the solution.
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Humans are always signaling. Rather than really looking at yourself, you’re looking at how other people look at you.
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If you’re a peaceful person, anything you do will be a happy activity.
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To be honest, speak without identity.
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To live in the present moment is the highest calling. It’s the source of all happiness.
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A busy calendar and a busy mind will destroy your ability to create anything great.
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My biggest fear is that I’m going to die without having really lived. I think everybody has that fear at some core level.
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Eventually you will get what you deserve.
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It’s a bad habit that we develop that we forget how to appreciate what we do have.
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Happiness is a state where nothing is missing.
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I’m not a busy person and I’m not busy because I refuse to schedule things.
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Everyone that ends up becoming an extreme winner in society starts off as a loser.
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I think to have peace of mind, you have to have peace of body, first.
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Live the life you want other people to live.
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Guard your time. It’s all you have.
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Good entrepreneurs don’t fail because they stay at it.
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You won’t get rich renting out your time.
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I don’t know if this generation is the last mortal generation, or the last one before we blow ourselves up.
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The greatest superpower is the ability to change yourself.
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Money will solve all your money problems but it doesn’t get you everywhere.
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Earn with your mind, not your time.
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We are evolved for frequent, visible, small wins and to ignore the infrequent, hidden, catastrophic risks.
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Art is just creativity, it’s just anything done for its own sake.
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You can spend your life however you want, but if you want to get rich, it has to be your number one overwhelming desire.
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People spend too much time doing and not enough time thinking about what they should be doing.
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The people who succeed are irrationally passionate about something.
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Be like family to your friends, a friend to strangers, and a stranger to your enemies.
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Wealth is assets that earn while you sleep.
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True happiness comes out of peace. Peace comes out of many things, but it comes from fundamentally understanding yourself.
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Whether in commerce, science, or politics, history remembers the artists.
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The best work is the work you’d do for free.
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Large groups are no place for smart people.
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Nothing you do is going to matter that much in the long run. Don’t take yourself so seriously.
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Work becomes flow at the limits of ability.
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To the experts, what looks like hard work from the outside, is play from the inside.
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If you could literally just sit for 30 minutes and be happy, you are successful.
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If you have an unswerving desire to do something, then usually you’ll get it.
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Behind every successful entrepreneur is a former failed self.
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All greatness comes from suffering.
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Guard your time. Forget the money.
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Media travels and earns while you sleep. It searches the world for opportunities for you. Code is even better.
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Spend your time doing only what you can uniquely do.
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If you want to see who rules over you, see who you’re not allowed to criticize.
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The most successful entrepreneurs are authentic to who they are and what they uniquely can do.
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In the digital world, the upside is so large that there’s almost no such thing as risk.
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Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
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Better motivated on the wrong thing than unmotivated on the right thing.
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Work as hard as you can. Even though what you work on and who you work with are more important.
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Humans aren’t evolved to worry about everything happening outside of their immediate environment.
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Once you’ve truly controlled your own fate, for better or for worse, you’ll never let anyone else tell you what to do.
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The biggest mistake any performer can make is to look at the audience.
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Specific knowledge can’t be taught, but can be learned.
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Most of our suffering comes from avoidance.
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I use my tweets and other people’s tweets as maxims that help compress my own learnings and be able to recall them.
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In a billion dollar company, the employees aren’t working any harder than people in a million dollar company. They’re just doing the right things.
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Your real resumé is a painful recounting of all of your struggles.
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The bigger problem this generation will face is adult education, not child education
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The best way, perhaps the only way, to change others is to become an example.
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When it comes to medicine and nutrition, subtract before you add.
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Study logic and math, because once you’ve mastered them, you won’t fear any book.
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We waste our time with short term thinking and busywork. Warren Buffett spends a year deciding and a day acting. That act lasts decades.
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When you’re healthy you have 10000 needs, but when you’re sick you only have one need.
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The real education begins in the library, it begins with books. If you can learn to like to read, you never need to go to school.
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My definition of wisdom is knowing the long term consequences of your actions.
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I don’t read anymore to complete books. I read to satisfy my genuine intellectual curiosity.
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Politics is the exercise of power without merit
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The people with the best judgment are among the least emotional.
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If they wrote it to make money, don’t read it.
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You make your own luck if you stay at it long enough.
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You get paid for being right first, and to be first, you can’t wait for consensus.
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Do everything you were going to do, but with less angst, less suffering, less emotion. Everything takes time.
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I don’t have time is just saying it’s not a priority.
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A good conference is a vacation that you take with really smart friends.
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I think almost everything about humans and human civilization is explained better by evolution than anything else.
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I was very selfish with my time and I probably had the most productive year of my life.
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You’ll do better work if you’re bored rather than busy.
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The world doesn’t always give what you want, but it often gives you what you need.
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I don’t believe in work time. I just believe in time and you can spend it doing whatever you want to do.
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Don’t return it, give it away. Don’t keep fixing it, create something new. Don’t force the relationship, find someone else.
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If you can’t delete an email without flinching or responding, you won’t scale.
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A clear mind, leads to better judgement, leads to better outcome.
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Learn to sell. Learn to build. If you can do both, you will be unstoppable.
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You always have three options. You can change it, you can accept it, or you can leave it.
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You can have the mind or you can have the moment.
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If you can’t see yourself working with someone for life, don’t work with them for a day.
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A vacation is a very expensive way to schedule the time to read a book in peace.
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If you want to be effective in business, you need a clear, calm, cool, and collected mind.
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Anger is a loss of control over the situation, and it is a contract that you’re making with yourself — that you’re going to literally be in physical and mental and emotional turmoil.
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A fit body, a calm mind, a house full of love. These things cannot be bought — they must be earned.
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All the real benefits in life come from compound interest.
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Love is given, not received.
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In general, avoid getting into situations where you’re sacrificing today for an imagined tomorrow.
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People who try to look smart by pointing out obvious exceptions actually signal the opposite.
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You want to be rich and anonymous, not poor and famous.
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What you do, who you do with, and how you do it are way more important than how hard you work.
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True, unconditional love, is the province of parents and saints.
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When I look back on my life, I want to say I saw the world the way it was.
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If you’re smart, you should be able to figure out how to be happy. Otherwise, you’re not that smart.
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Trade money for time, not time for money. You’re going to run out of time first.
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The flavor of life is on the edge.
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I don’t plan. I’m not a planner. I prefer to live in the moment and be free and to flow and to be happy.
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Guilt is society’s voice speaking in your head.
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You have to do hard things to create your own meaning in life.
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