為了延伸閱讀重貼舊文。原推在此。
- Seek wealth, not money or status. Wealth is having assets that earn while you sleep. Money is how we transfer time and wealth. Status is your place in the social hierarchy.
- Understand that ethical wealth creation is possible. If you secretly despise wealth, it will elude you.
- Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
- You’re not going to get rich renting out your time. You must own equity – a piece of a business – to gain your financial freedom.
- You will get rich by giving society what it wants but does not yet know how to get. At scale.
（無論如何都要為了社會貢獻一己之力 → 如果要追求財富則是要規模化的提供社會想要但不知該如何取得的東西）
- Pick an industry where you can play long term games with long term people.
- The Internet has massively broadened the possible space of careers. Most people haven’t figured this out yet.
（網路時代有你還沒想到的各種可能性）
- Play iterated games. All the returns in life, whether in wealth, relationships, or knowledge, come from compound interest.
（複利、複利、複利）
- Pick business partners with high intelligence, energy, and, above all, integrity.
（誠實 / 正直）
- Don’t partner with cynics and pessimists. Their beliefs are self-fulfilling.
- Learn to sell. Learn to build. If you can do both, you will be unstoppable.
（學銷售與創造 → 職場上哪個位置可以提供這樣的訓練）
- Arm yourself with specific knowledge, accountability, and leverage.
- Specific knowledge is knowledge that you cannot be trained for. If society can train you, it can train someone else, and replace you.
- Specific knowledge is found by pursuing your genuine curiosity and passion rather than whatever is hot right now.
- Building specific knowledge will feel like play to you but will look like work to others.
- When specific knowledge is taught, it’s through apprenticeships, not schools.
- Specific knowledge is often highly technical or creative. It cannot be outsourced or automated.
（用舉例的方式說明何謂具體知識）
- Embrace accountability, and take business risks under your own name. Society will reward you with responsibility, equity, and leverage.
- The most accountable people have singular, public, and risky brands: Oprah, Trump, Kanye, Elon.
（擁抱職責？）
- “Give me a lever long enough, and a place to stand, and I will move the earth.” – Archimedes
- Fortunes require leverage. Business leverage comes from capital, people, and products with no marginal cost of replication (code and media).
（程式與媒體都是很好的槓桿手段）
- Capital means money. To raise money, apply your specific knowledge, with accountability, and show resulting good judgment.
- Labor means people working for you. It’s the oldest and most fought-over form of leverage. Labor leverage will impress your parents, but don’t waste your life chasing it.
- Capital and labor are permissioned leverage. Everyone is chasing capital, but someone has to give it to you. Everyone is trying to lead, but someone has to follow you.
- Code and media are permissionless leverage. They’re the leverage behind the newly rich. You can create software and media that works for you while you sleep.
- An army of robots is freely available – it’s just packed in data centers for heat and space efficiency. Use it.
- If you can’t code, write books and blogs, record videos and podcasts.
- Leverage is a force multiplier for your judgement.
（關鍵還是在於你的判斷。）
（什麼是判斷？這邊定義智慧是知道你的行為長期而言所帶來的影響，而判斷就是在了解長期而言的影響下做出決策。）
（在槓桿時代，一個正確的決策勝過其他所有事情。）
- Judgement requires experience, but can be built faster by learning foundational skills.
- There is no skill called “business.” Avoid business magazines and business classes.
（避開商業雜誌與商業課程？）
- Study microeconomics, game theory, psychology, persuasion, ethics, mathematics, and computers.
（讀個體經濟、賽局理論、心理學、說服、倫理、數學、與電腦。）
- Reading is faster than listening. Doing is faster than watching.
（關於學習：用讀的比用聽的快；動手做比單純看快。）
（突然想到這篇說 watch / look / see 差別的文章。）
- You should be too busy to “do coffee,” while still keeping an uncluttered calendar.
- Set and enforce an aspirational personal hourly rate. If fixing a problem will save less than your hourly rate, ignore it. If outsourcing a task will cost less than your hourly rate, outsource it.
（超過你個人時薪的事情就外包）
- Work as hard as you can. Even though who you work with and what you work on are more important than how hard you work.
（努力工作。雖然做什麼與跟誰一起工作比你努力的程度更為重要。）
- Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
- There are no get rich quick schemes. That’s just someone else getting rich off you.
- Apply specific knowledge, with leverage, and eventually you will get what you deserve.
- When you’re finally wealthy, you’ll realize that it wasn’t what you were seeking in the first place. But that’s for another day.
延伸閱讀
這個網站 https://www.navalmanack.com/ 整理了 Naval Ravikant 說過的一些話，例如：
- Understanding how wealth is created
- Building Judgement
- Happiness is learned
- Choosing to be yourself
- The meanings of life （有趣）
以及推薦書單，其中有正體中文版的：
大推 Matt Ridley 的書但好像沒有幾本有中文版，另外奧修的書也有點難找，但應該也看不了那麼多 lol