Albert S

<aside> 💡 Unorganized thoughts jotted down over the years. Some are controversial and might be outdated. Publishing them for posterity and will edit later.

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• Entrepreneur’s mind, athlete’s body, artist’s soul.
• The leader is simply defined as the bravest man.
• You are what you scroll.
• If you want to matter, you need to do. Big, bold things. Not write, not create content, not invest, not advise. Do. Because it’s hard and everyone knows it.
• If you don’t communicate you don’t exist.
• High testosterone + high IQ = success.
• Money is like health. You worry about it when you don’t have it. Make sure you always do.
• Having stuff isn’t fun, getting stuff is fun.
• You have higher duties than your own happiness.
• “The lawless can do what they want. The compliant will be tortured to death.”
• There is absolute, overwhelming pressure to fit in and do what others are doing or expect you to do. However, most people are unsuccessful and unhappy. This means that success can only come by standing out and going against the herd. It is a necessary, but insufficient, condition.
• To beat the market in the long run, you need to bet heavy and concentrated with black edge or a certain insight that others don't have.
• The difference between a madman and a genius is success.
• Successful investing is a game of patience. Let the market come to you.
• Investing in China in the long run is a fool’s errand. Their stock market is down 30% while their GDP is up 500% over 20 years. Their growth does not translate to shareholder returns because they are not running a free, capital markets system.
• The world votes with their money and they have chosen the US (46% of global capital markets while only having 4% of the population).
• “The lowlifes will come at you, especially when you’re “hot” or successful. Don’t let them get to you.”