Here you will find some of the greatest quotes about Numbers.
Numbers govern the modern world.
We never had the time and possibilities to develop an Intuition about numbers.
All of mathematics is based on abstraction. It’s simple – the abstract object represents a real object.
The goal of the education system is to prepare you to be an academic, not to understand life or be happy.
It’s never too late to learn, even from scratch.
Life is full of situations when numbers are all around, but the real challenge is not to count or do mathematical operations with them. It’s to understand the abstraction, to understand what they represent and what the context is.
Numbers don’t bring sustainable long-term Happiness.
Numbers can cause positive emotions, but not sustain them.
Numbers can bring you long-term unhappiness.
Numbers can cause negative emotions and sustain them.
Humans are preprogrammed to always want more, including, unfortunately, from the past.
A big danger about numbers is that they are easy to compare and lead to one of the most toxic human emotions, one that can destroy whole societies, envy.
The amount of rich people who manage to fuck up their life is very significant.
We’re not robots; everything affects us.
Over the long run, numbers seem to be detrimental to our emotional state significantly more than helping it.
The more emotional you are, the more you load up your future with Expectations. And those expectations will lower your happiness when you crash with reality.
Systems control and ask for Money, reducing your Freedom.
Avoid number-related emotions, don’t give them space, don’t give them time, don’t give them reasons.
Often, it’s not possible not to know. Then you move to plan B: not care!
The more you care about numbers, the less attention will be left to give about the really important stuff in life.
You have to love numbers as a concept, explore them, just not care about… your numbers? This is extremely counterintuitive and is the reason why almost everyone gets this delicate balance wrong.
Truth deserves Love by itself. And numbers are part of the Truth. So dig in.
If the number represents another number(s), then it’s Game of Life stuff, and you can dive in as your emotions are not in danger.
Pricing your product or service is an inflection point between demand and supply (both numbers) and your confidence and self-worth.
Never be afraid to price high. Or even crazy high. Or having vastly different prices for different clients.
Humans are extraordinarily bad at consciously developing their Intuition about numbers.
Use numbers when talking about probabilities! Do this for a year, see when you’re consistently very wrong, adapt your guesses, and your brain will develop a probability Intuition.
A key characteristic of financially successful people and entrepreneurs is they love being specific about numbers. They like to ask the key number question: How much?
Everyone who talks straight facts is instantly respected (at least in the environment you would want to be in).
Numbers belong in the mind. Feelings belong in the heart. Don’t mix them.
Love your Freedom. Let the heart help the mind earn the money to make it happen.
