Naval Ravikant Quotes

1. Productize yourself. – Naval Ravikant

2. Less fear, more love. – Naval Ravikant

3. Slow down, life is long. – Naval Ravikant

4. Be present above all else. – Naval Ravikant

5. Be too busy to “do coffee”. – Naval Ravikant

6. Debate rather than dictate. – Naval Ravikant

7. Signaling virtue is a vice. – Naval Ravikant

8. Anything deep is interesting. – Naval Ravikant

9. Guard your time. Forget the money. – Naval Ravikant

10. Live below your means for freedom. – Naval Ravikant

11. Busy is the death of productivity. – Naval Ravikant

12. The flavor of life is on the edge. – Naval Ravikant

13. Guard your time. It’s all you have. – Naval Ravikant

14. Earn with your mind, not your time. – Naval Ravikant

15. All greatness comes from suffering. – Naval Ravikant

16. Desire is just fear by another name. – Naval Ravikant

17. Arm yourself with specific knowledge. – Naval Ravikant

18. To be honest, speak without identity. – Naval Ravikant

19. The heart decides, the head rationalizes. – Naval Ravikant

20. A lot of happiness is just being present. – Naval Ravikant

21. Eventually you will get what you deserve. – Naval Ravikant

22. Ruthlessly cut meetings out of your life. – Naval Ravikant

23. No matter how high your bar is, raise it. – Naval Ravikant

24. Most of our suffering comes from avoidance. – Naval Ravikant

25. Relax you’ll live longer and perform better. – Naval Ravikant

26. Live the life you want other people to live. – Naval Ravikant

27. All the great endeavors in life are creative. – Naval Ravikant

28. Happiness is a state where nothing is missing. – Naval Ravikant

29. The older the problem, the older the solution. – Naval Ravikant

30. Guilt is society’s voice speaking in your head. – Naval Ravikant

31. Politics is the exercise of power without merit. – Naval Ravikant

32. Uncertainty, not outcome, is the root of stress. – Naval Ravikant

33. Happiness is more about peace than it is about joy. – Naval Ravikant

34. Spend your time doing only what you can uniquely do. – Naval Ravikant

35. ‘Consensus’ is just another way of saying ‘average’. – Naval Ravikant

36. You make your own luck if you stay at it long enough. – Naval Ravikant

37. Ideally you want to end up specializing in being you. – Naval Ravikant

38. No one in the world is going to beat you at being you. – Naval Ravikant

39. Good entrepreneurs don’t fail because they stay at it. – Naval Ravikant

40. Self-image is the prison. Other people are the guards. – Naval Ravikant

41. You’ll do better work if you’re bored rather than busy. – Naval Ravikant

42. You want to be rich and anonymous, not poor and famous. – Naval Ravikant

43. The best exercise is the one your enjoy doing every day. – Naval Ravikant

44. Ego is false confidence, self-respect is true confidence. – Naval Ravikant

45. I don’t think life is that hard. I think we make it hard. – Naval Ravikant

46. No one is going to value you more than you value yourself. – Naval Ravikant

47. The greatest superpower is the ability to change yourself. – Naval Ravikant

48. All the real benefits in life come from compound interest. – Naval Ravikant

49. Looking forward to holidays takes the joy out of everyday. – Naval Ravikant

50. You do not want to compete, you want to be a market of one. – Naval Ravikant

51. Most of life is a search for who and what needs you the most. – Naval Ravikant

52. You have to do hard things to create your own meaning in life. – Naval Ravikant

53. To a tree, there is no right or wrong. There is no good or bad. – Naval Ravikant

54. Only through suffering do you have change and self-improvement. – Naval Ravikant

55. On what he wants to be remembered for: Don’t care. I’ll be dead. – Naval Ravikant

56. The people with the best judgment are among the least emotional. – Naval Ravikant

57. Art is just creativity, it’s just anything done for its own sake. – Naval Ravikant

58. When it comes to medicine and nutrition, subtract before you add. – Naval Ravikant

59. Your real resumé is a painful recounting of all of your struggles. – Naval Ravikant

60. The people who succeed are irrationally passionate about something. – Naval Ravikant

61. Is it so important to me that I be unhappy unless this goes my way? – Naval Ravikant

62. I think to have peace of mind, you have to have peace of body, first. – Naval Ravikant

63. The biggest mistake any performer can make is to look at the audience. – Naval Ravikant

64. A good conference is a vacation that you take with really smart friends. – Naval Ravikant

65. Better motivated on the wrong thing than unmotivated on the right thing. – Naval Ravikant

66. Whether in commerce, science, or politics, history remembers the artists. – Naval Ravikant

67. You should be too busy to do coffee while keeping an uncluttered calendar. – Naval Ravikant

68. When I look back on my life, I want to say I saw the world the way it was. – Naval Ravikant

69. Learn to sell. Learn to build. If you can do both, you will be unstoppable. – Naval Ravikant

70. The means of learning are abundant, it’s the desire to learn that’s scarce. – Naval Ravikant

71. It is the mark of a charlatan to explain a simple concept in a complex way. – Naval Ravikant

72. Everything you’re a winner at now in your life, you were a once a loser at. – Naval Ravikant

73. The best way, perhaps the only way, to change others is to become an example. – Naval Ravikant

74. If you have an unswerving desire to do something, then usually you’ll get it. – Naval Ravikant

75. If you can’t delete an email without flinching or responding, you won’t scale. – Naval Ravikant

76. My definition of wisdom is knowing the long term consequences of your actions. – Naval Ravikant

77. I wish I had done all of the same things but with less emotion and less anger. – Naval Ravikant

78. Cynicism is easy. Mimicry is easy. Optimistic contrarians are the rarest breed. – Naval Ravikant

79. If you want to see who rules over you, see who you’re not allowed to criticize. – Naval Ravikant

80. If you could literally just sit for 30 minutes and be happy, you are successful. – Naval Ravikant

81. Trade money for time, not time for money. You’re going to run out of time first. – Naval Ravikant

82. You get paid for being right first, and to be first, you can’t wait for consensus. – Naval Ravikant

83. The world doesn’t always give what you want, but it often gives you what you need. – Naval Ravikant

84. A busy calendar and a busy mind will destroy your ability to create anything great. – Naval Ravikant

85. All real success is internal and has very little to do with external circumstances. – Naval Ravikant

86. I’m not afraid of death anymore. […] I don’t have the quest for immortality anymore. – Naval Ravikant

87. To the experts, what looks like hard work from the outside, is play from the inside. – Naval Ravikant

88. If you want to operate at peak performance, you have to learn how to tame your mind. – Naval Ravikant

89. If it entertains you now but will bore you someday, it’s a distraction. Keep looking. – Naval Ravikant

90. If you can’t see yourself working with someone for life, don’t work with them for a day. – Naval Ravikant

91. We are going from bread and circuses to cannabis and video games to psychedelics and VR. – Naval Ravikant

92. We are biological machines programmed to survive and replicate. Happy is anti-evolution. – Naval Ravikant

93. I can give glib answers all day long, but you have to discover your own personal answer. – Naval Ravikant

94. The phrase that I use the most to myself in my head is I just tell myself one word: accept. – Naval Ravikant

95. Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true. – Naval Ravikant

96. Nothing you do is going to matter that much in the long run. Don’t take yourself so seriously. – Naval Ravikant

97. What you do, who you do with, and how you do it are way more important than how hard you work. – Naval Ravikant

98. Work as hard as you can. Even though what you work on and who you work with are more important. – Naval Ravikant

99. A fit body, a calm mind, a house full of love. These things cannot be bought — they must be earned. – Naval Ravikant

100. That’s the fundamental delusion – that there is something out there that will make you happy forever. – Naval Ravikant