Eric Jorgenson

It’s much more important today to be able to become an expert in a brand-new field in nine to twelve months than to have studied the “right” thing a long time ago.

Knowing how to be persuasive when speaking is far more important than being an expert digital marketer or click optimizer.

Foundations are key. It’s much better to be at 9/10 or 10/10 on foundations than to try and get super deep into things.

The people who have the ability to fail in public under their own names actually gain a lot of power.

Think about what product or service society wants but does not yet know how to get. You want to become the person who delivers it and delivers it at scale. That is really the challenge of how to make money.

The final form of leverage is brand new—the most democratic form. It is: “products with no marginal cost of replication.” This includes books, media, movies, and code.

You’re never going to get rich renting out your time.

Specific knowledge is found by pursuing your genuine curiosity and passion rather than whatever is hot right now.
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Building specific knowledge will feel like play to you but will look like work to others

“Give me a lever long enough and a place to stand, and I will move the earth.”
—Archimedes
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Getting rich is about knowing what to do, who to do it with, and when to do it. It is much more about understanding than purely hard work. Yes, hard work matters, and you can’t skimp on it. But it has to be directed in the right way.