The 20 Best Quotes from Naval Ravikant

Naval Ravikant is a famous investor. He got in early with companies like Uber, Foursquare, Twitter, and Wish.com. As you'd expect, he's very rich. His net worth is estimated to be at 65 million dollars. If you're talking about building wealth, you can't do much better than listening to Naval.

However, having paid attention to the guy, I can tell you that he also has some brilliant takes on life, culture, and philosophy.  He may not be the standard sort of person whose quotes we highlight on Culturcidal, but it’s worth your time to learn more about the way he thinks.

20) "If you're intellectually honest and advocate for a system that controls people, turn over the keys to your enemies for a dry run."

19) "It's easier to change yourself than to change the world. Live the life you want other people to live."

18) "It's not so much 'Happy wife, happy life,' as 'Unhappy wife, unhappy life.'"

17) "If you want to earn respect, just take on responsibility."

16) "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."

15) "If you allow secret information, secret police, and secret courts, you will eventually be ruled by a secret government."

14) "The punishment for the love of money is delivered at the same time as the money. As you make money, you just want even more, and you become paranoid and fearful of losing what you do have… I think the best way to stay away from this constant love of money is to not upgrade your lifestyle as you make money."

13) "Retirement is when you stop sacrificing today for an imaginary tomorrow. When today is complete, in and of itself, you’re retired."

12) "Understanding economics means continually asking, 'But at what cost?'"

11) "If you see a get-rich-quick scheme, that’s someone else trying to get rich off of you."

10) "It’s the mark of a charlatan to try and explain simple things in complex ways and it’s the mark of a genius to explain complicated things in simple ways."

9) "Never attribute to conspiracy what is more easily explained by incentives and incompetence."

8) "Which games you play is more important than how well you play them."

7) "People who live far below their means enjoy a freedom that people busy upgrading their lifestyles can’t fathom."

6) "The only true test of intelligence is if you get what you want out of life."

5) "There’s no such thing as true censorship. Censorship creates two classes - the censors, who get to see everything, and the rest of us, who only get to see and say what they permit."

4) "The problem is that to win at a status game, you have to put somebody else down. That’s why you should avoid status games in your life because they make you into an angry combative person. You’re always fighting to put other people down, to put yourself and the people you like up."

3) "Karma is just you, repeating your patterns, virtues, and flaws until you finally get what you deserve."

2) "If they can silence you for one reason, they can silence you for any reason."

1) "You will get rich by giving society what it wants but does not yet know how to get at scale."

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