Best Naval Ravikant Quotes

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

Money isn't how you motivate great people, it's how you reward great people.

It's good to be a small company early because... there's less of an infrastructure to prevent early promotion.

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

You want to own equity if you can. If you don't own equity in a business, your odds of making proper money are slim

The world doesn't always give what you want, but it often gives you what you need.

Grind and sweat, toil and bleed, face the abyss. It's all part of becoming and overnight success.

A happy, calm, and peaceful person will make better decisions. So if you want to operate at peak performance, you have to learn how to tame your mind.

You make your own luck if you stay at it long enough.

Being a founder is brutally difficult. It takes a long time and in the long run, the people who succeed are just the ones who persevere.

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.

As long as you can keep taking shots on goal, and you keep getting back up, eventually you'll get through. Just stick at it.

One path to a happy life is to retain a sense of wonder.

A rational person can find peace by cultivating indifference to things outside their control.

Happiness is a state where nothing is missing

If you're smart, you should be able to figure out how to be happy. Otherwise, you're not that smart.

Relax you'll live longer and perform better.

That's the fundamental delusion — that there is something out there that will make you happy forever.

Money doesn't buy happiness – it buys freedom.

Forty hour workweeks are a relic of the Industrial Age. Knowledge workers function like athletes — train and sprint, then rest and reassess.

You can buy attention (advertising). You can beg for attention from the media (PR). You can bug people one at a time to get attention (sales). Or you can earn attention by creating something interesting and valuable and then publishing it online for free.