text: 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.

source: How to Get Rich tweetstorm

provenance: verified

context: Opening tweets of the storm.


text: 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.


text: Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.


text: Pick an industry where you can play long term games with long term people.


text: Play iterated games. All the returns in life, whether in wealth, relationships, or knowledge, come from compound interest.


text: Pick business partners with high intelligence, energy, and, above all, integrity.


text: Learn to sell. Learn to build. If you can do both, you will be unstoppable.


text: Arm yourself with specific knowledge, accountability, and leverage.


text: Specific knowledge is knowledge that you cannot be trained for. If society can train you, it can train someone else, and replace you.


text: Specific knowledge is found by pursuing your genuine curiosity and passion rather than whatever is hot right now.


text: Embrace accountability, and take business risks under your own name. Society will reward you with responsibility, equity, and leverage.


text: Fortunes require leverage. Business leverage comes from capital, people, and products with no marginal cost of replication (code and media).


text: 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.


text: An army of robots is freely available — it's just packed in data centers for heat and space efficiency. Use it.


text: If you can't code, write books and blogs, record videos and podcasts.


text: Earn with your mind, not your time.


text: There are no get rich quick schemes. That's just someone else getting rich off you.


text: Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.


text: 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.

context: Closing tweet of the storm.


text: Desire is a contract that you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want.

source: Podcast appearances / The Almanack of Naval Ravikant

provenance: model-memory

context: Recurring formulation across FS podcast, JRE #1309, and the Almanack; wording varies slightly by telling.


text: A calm mind, a fit body, a house full of love. These things cannot be bought — they must be earned.

source: Tweet


text: The three big ones in life are wealth, health, and happiness. We pursue them in that order, but their importance is reverse.

source: The Almanack of Naval Ravikant


text: Escape competition through authenticity.

source: Tweet / How to Get Rich commentary


text: No one can compete with you on being you. Most of life is a search for who and what needs you the most.


text: Doctors won't make you healthy. Nutritionists won't make you slim. Teachers won't make you smart. Gurus won't make you calm. Mentors won't make you rich. Trainers won't make you fit. Ultimately, you have to take responsibility. Save yourself.


text: If you can't decide, the answer is no.


text: Reading is faster than listening. Doing is faster than watching.


text: The genuine love for reading itself, when cultivated, is a superpower.


text: The modern struggle: Lone individuals summoning inhuman willpower, fasting, meditating, and exercising, up against armies of scientists and statisticians weaponizing abundant food, screens, and medicine into junk food, clickbait news, infinite porn, endless games, and addictive drugs.

context: Punctuation of the original tweet differs (ampersands, commas); verify exact form.


text: Impatience with actions, patience with results.


text: Inspiration is perishable — act on it immediately.

source: Tweet / The Almanack of Naval Ravikant


text: In an age of infinite leverage, judgment is the most important skill.

source: Podcast / Almanack material

context: Wording varies across tellings; verify exact form.


text: Anger is a hot coal that you hold in your hand while waiting to throw it at someone else.

source: Podcast appearances

context: Naval attributes this framing to Buddhist sources when he uses it — persona should cite it as borrowed, not original.


text: Peace is happiness at rest; happiness is peace in motion.


text: Enlightenment is the space between your thoughts.