“A life spent looking for shortcuts is a long road to nowhere.” – Naval Ravikant
56 Naval Ravikant Quotes
- “All greatness comes from suffering.”
2. “An entrepreneur without drive is just unemployed.”
3. “Desire is a contract that you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want.”
4. “The people who have the ability to fail in public under their own name actually gain a lot of power.”
5. “The smarter you get, the slower you read.”
6. “A taste of freedom can make you unemployable.”
7. “Don’t partner with pessimists”
8. “You make your own luck if you stay at it long enough.”
9. “Art is anything done for its own sake”
10. “A rational person can find peace by cultivating indifference to things outside their control.”
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11. “The only true test of intelligence is if you get what you want out of life.”
12. “Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.”
13. “Wealth is assets that earn while you sleep”
14. “Wealth buys your freedom”
15. “Reading is the ultimate meta-skill that can be traded for anything else.”
16. “To the experts, what looks like hard work from the outside, is play from the inside.”
17. “Read what you love until you love to read.”
18. “Impatience with actions, patience with results.”
19. “A busy mind can often rob you of peace of mind. The peace that we seek is not peace of mind, it’s peace from mind.”
20. “If it entertains you now but will bore you someday, it’s a distraction. Keep looking.”
Naval Ravikant Quotes About Life
21. “You must own equity to gain your financial freedom”
22. “The means of learning are abundant, the desire to learn is scarce”
23. “Escape competition through authenticity”
24. “Happiness is there when you remove the sense of something missing in your life.”
25. “A fit body, a calm mind, a house full of love. These things cannot be bought — they must be earned.”
26. “Figure out what product you can provide and then figure out how to scale it”
27. “The means of learning are abundant, the desire to learn is scarce”
28. “A good employer willfully overcompensates you.”
29. “Self-esteem is the reputation that you have with yourself.” You’ll always know.”
30. “If you want to be a philosopher king first become a king then become a philosopher. Not first become a philosopher and then become a king.”
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31. “Wealth is assets that earn while you sleep”
32. “I don’t actually read a lot of books. I pick up a lot of books and only get through a few, which form the foundation of my knowledge.”
33. “Renting out your time means you’re essentially replaceable”
34. “So, you want to look for professions and careers where the inputs and outputs are highly disconnected.”
35. “Figure out what product you can provide and then figure out how to scale it”
36. “I would rather read the best 100 books over and over again until I absorb them rather than read all the books”
37. “The measure of how much you love something is what you sacrifice for it.”
38. “Don’t take yourself so seriously. You’re just a monkey with a plan.”
39. “A life spent looking for shortcuts is a long road to nowhere.”
40. “Specialisation is for insects. I don’t believe in this model of trying to focus your life down one thing. You’ve got one life just do everything you want.”
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41. “People living below their means have freedom”
42. “Escape competition through authenticity”
43. “So, you’re right. It’s about distributing what rich people used to have to everybody.”
44. “People living below their means have freedom”
45. “All systems insulated from feedback from free markets or natural forces eventually get corrupted.”
46. “So, you’re right. It’s about distributing what rich people used to have to everybody.”
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47. “You must own equity to gain your financial freedom”
48. “Competing without software is like competing without electricity.”
49. “Any meeting with eight people sitting around at a conference table, nothing is getting done in that meeting. You are literally just dying one hour at a time.”
50. “Don’t partner with pessimists”
51. “The most dangerous things are heroin and a monthly salary”
52. “Entrepreneurship is essentially an act of creating something new from scratch. Predicting that society will want it, and then figuring out how to scale it, and get it to everybody in a profitable way, in a self-sustaining way.”
53. “So, what the internet does is allows any niche obsession,”
54. “So, you want to look for professions and careers where the inputs and outputs are highly disconnected.”
55. “If you want to be a philosopher king first become a king then become a philosopher. Not first become a philosopher and then become a king.”
56. “So, what the internet does is allows any niche obsession,”
Naval Ravikant is an Indian-American entrepreneur and investor. He co-founded AngelList and served as its chairman and former CEO. With over 70 total exits and more than 10 unicorn companies, he has made early-stage investments in over 200 companies, including Uber, FourSquare, Twitter, Notion, SnapLogic, Opendoor, Clubhouse, and Stack Overflow.
He offers guidance on pursuing health, wealth, and happiness as a podcaster.