Naval Ravikant Quotes

“The only way to wealth is through creating something of value that can be sold.”

“Happiness is a state where nothing is missing.”

“If you want to be wealthy, think of wealth. If you want to be a great writer, think of writing.”

“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.”

“Escape competition through authenticity.”

“Earn with your mind, not your time.”

“Trade money for time, not time for money. You're going to run out of time first.”

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

“Wealth is assets that earn while you sleep.”

“Your success in life depends on your ability to make good decisions. Your happiness depends on your ability to not care about the outcomes.”

“The best way, perhaps the only way, to change others is to become an example.”

“On AngelList, we get 100 new companies created a day. That's an insane flood.”

“If there are people who are sitting out the Silicon Valley tech scene right now, they're possibly losing out on their generation's greatest wealth creation.”

“Specific knowledge is knowledge you cannot be trained for. If society can train you, it can train someone else and replace you.”

“Desire is a contract you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want.”

“I would rather understand the basics really well than memorize all kinds of complicated concepts I can't stitch together and can't rederive from the basics.”

“I like to think that if I lost all my money and you dropped me on a random street in any English-speaking country, within five or ten years I'd be wealthy again because it's just a skillset I've developed that anyone can develop.”

“Naval is one of the smartest people I've ever met, and he's also one of the most courageous. Not in the "run into the fire without thinking twice" sense, but in the "think twice and then tell everyone they're focusing on the wrong fire" sense.”