Naval Ravikant - DeveloPassion

# Naval Ravikant ![[2025-08-22_Naval_Ravikant.jpg]] Naval Ravikant is the co-founder and former CEO of AngelList. ## Quotes   - [[A busy mind accelerates the perceived passage of time. Buy more time by cultivating peace of mind]] - [[A happy person isn't someone who's happy all the time. It's someone who effortlessly interprets events in such a way that they don't lose their innate peace]] - [[A taste of freedom can make you unemployable]] - [[All self-help boils down to choose long-term over short-term]] - [[Always pay it forward. And don't keep count]] - [[An abundance on money and time can kill even the best-intentioned product]] - [[At the end of the day, you are a combination of your habits and the people who you spend the most time with]] - [[Be patient, it takes 10 years to build a career in anything]] - [[Behind every successful entrepreneur is a former failed self]] - [[By the time someone else tells you their winning strategy, it’s too late]] - [[Desire is a contract that you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want]] - [[Don’t focus on more than one desire at a time]] - [[Ego is false confidence, self-respect is true confidence]] - [[Escape competition through authenticity]] - [[Everybody wants to change others. Nobody wants to be changed]] - [[Fasting focuses the mind. It replaces all desires with a single desire]] - [[Flow is always there. You’re just in the way]] - [[Following your genuine intellectual curiosity is a better foundation for a career than following whatever is making money right now]] - [[Guard your time. Forget the money]] - [[I, and I alone, am responsible for everything I think and feel]] - [[If it hurts to hear it, look for the truth in it. If it comforts to hear it, look for the lie in it]] - [[If the work doesn’t require creativity, delegate it, automate it, or leave it]] - [[If you can't decide, the answer is no]] - [[If you can't decide, then answer is no]] - [[If you don’t have leverage, you’re never going to make real wealth]] - [[If you don’t know it, it’s because you aren’t interested in it]] - [[If you want to be great, walk the rope without a boss and without a net]] - [[If you want to be rewarded, be irreplaceable]] - [[If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone]] - [[Intelligence plus experience equals wisdom]] - [[It doesn’t take money to make money, it takes leverage to make money]] - [[It’s becoming easier and easier to be social, but exceptional people are built in solitude]] - [[Knowing how little you matter is very important for your mental health and your happiness]] - [[Knowledge is a skyscraper. You can take a shortcut with a fragile foundation of memorization, or build slowly upon a steel frame of understanding]] - [[Learn to sell. Learn to build. If you can do both, you will be unstoppable]] - [[Making money is not a thing that you do. It's a skill that you learn]] - [[Meditation is intermittent fasting for the mind]] - [[My definition of wisdom is knowing the long-term consequences of your actions]] - [[Negotiations are won by whoever cares less]] - [[Observe when you’re angry. Anger is a loss of control over the situation]] - [[Our temporary solution to a temporary problem has become a permanent problem]] - [[People think they can’t change themselves, but they can. People think they can change others, but they can’t]] - [[Persistence beats timing. Execution beats luck. Not immediately, but eventually]] - [[Reading a book isn’t a race. The better the book, the slower it should be absorbed]] - [[Smart people talking to other smart people tend to have very short conversations]] - [[Some of the most creative and productive people I have ever met work in multi-week bursts and then have weeks where they just idle with little done. It’s the nature of the human animal]] - [[Study physics, mathematics, computers, microeconomics, game theory, and persuasion]] - [[The beauty of the internet is the entire library of Alexandria times 10 is at your fingertips at all times]] - [[The hallmark of independent thinking is disbelief in the fashionable religions of the day]] - [[The highest status people in human history are those that asked for nothing and gave everything]] - [[The measure of wisdom is silence]] - [[The modern mind is overstimulated and the modern body is understimulated and overfed. Meditation, exercise, and fasting restore an ancient balance]] - [[The most dangerous thing is not making enough money. It's spending the money you have on the wrong things]] - [[The most important skill for getting rich is becoming a perpetual learner. You have to know how to learn anything you want to learn]] - [[The only real test of intelligence is if you get what you want out of life]] - [[The overeducated are worse off than the undereducated, having traded common sense for the illusion of knowledge]] - [[The people who succeed are irrationally passionate about something]] - [[The price of productivity is creativity]] - [[The purpose of wealth is freedom]] - [[The quality of your mind is the quality of your life]] - [[The really smart thinkers are clear thinkers]] - [[The secret to public speaking is to speak as if you were alone]] - [[The single biggest wealth hack is living in the future]] - [[The success formula. Solve your own problems and freely share the solutions]] - [[Time spent undistracted and alone resolves the unresolved and takes us from mentally fat to fit]] - [[To predict a person's behavior, study their incentives. To control a person's behavior, set their incentives. Not true for the best people]] - [[To write a great book, you must first become the book]] - [[Trade money for time, not time for money. You’re going to run out of time first]] - [[Twitter is the only social network that connects people over ideas rather than over pre-existing relationships]] - [[Twitter's network effect is insanely strong - realtime, asynchronous (robust to outages), across real-world social boundaries]] - [[We say peace of mind, but really what we want is peace from mind]] - [[What you choose to work on, and who you choose to work with, are far more important than how hard you work]] - [[When building habits, choose consistency over content]] - [[Which games you play is more important than how well you play them]] - [[You are a story that you tell yourself]] - [[You don’t need mentors, you need action]] - [[You don't want respect, you want self-respect]] - [[You make your own luck if you stay at it long enough]] - [[You want to be rich and anonymous, not poor and famous]] - [[Your success in life depends on your ability to make good decisions. Your happiness depends on your ability to not care about the outcomes]]  ## Books   - [[Reading a book isn’t a race. The better the book, the slower it should be absorbed]]