Naval Ravikant is an Indian-American entrepreneur and investor. He is the co-founder, chairman and former CEO of AngelList. He has invested early-stage in over 200 companies including Uber, FourSquare, Twitter, Wish.com, Poshmark, Postmates, Thumbtack, Notion, SnapLogic, Opendoor, Clubhouse, Stack Overflow, OpenDNS, Yammer, and Clearview AI, with over 70 total exits and more than 10 Unicorn companies.
Once you’re calm and fit, you have everything worth having, as the rest just comes and goes.
– Naval Ravikant
I hope our collection of Naval Ravikant Quotes will inspire you to do great things in life and achieve heights of success.
Naval Ravikant Quotes
1. “A busy calendar and a busy mind will destroy your ability to create anything great.” – Naval Ravikant
2. “People spend too much time doing and not enough time thinking about what they should be doing.” – Naval Ravikant
3. “Nothing you do is going to matter that much in the long run. Don’t take yourself so seriously.” – Naval Ravikant
4. “When you’re healthy you have 10000 needs, but when you’re sick you only have one need.” – Naval Ravikant
5. “Following your genuine intellectual curiosity is a better foundation for a career than following whatever is making money right now.” – Naval Ravikant
6. “I don’t plan. I’m not a planner. I prefer to live in the moment and be free and to flow and to be happy.” – Naval Ravikant
7. “A fit body, a calm mind, a house full of love. These things cannot be bought — they must be earned.” – Naval Ravikant
8. “Reading is the ultimate meta-skill that can be traded for anything else.” – Naval Ravikant
9. “The smarter you get, the slower you read.” – Naval Ravikant
10. “The fundamental delusion — there is something out there that will make me happy and fulfilled forever.” – Naval Ravikant
11. “Before you can lie to another, you must first lie to yourself.” – Naval Ravikant
12. “Earn with your mind, not your time.” – Naval Ravikant
13. “Clear thinkers appeal to their own authority.” – Naval Ravikant
14. “You can have the mind or you can have the moment.” – Naval Ravikant
15. “If being ethical were profitable everybody would do it.” – Naval Ravikant
16. “You want to be rich and anonymous, not poor and famous.” – Naval Ravikant
17. “Tell your friends that you’re a happy person. Then you’ll be forced to conform to it. You’ll have a consistency bias. You have to live up to it. Your friends will expect you to be a happy person.” – Naval Ravikant
18. “This is such a short and precious life that it’s really important that you don’t spend it being unhappy.” – Naval Ravikant
19. “Yoga cultivates Peace of Body. Meditation cultivates Peace of Mind.” – Naval Ravikant
20. “The first rule of handling conflict is don’t hang around people who are constantly engaging in conflict.” – Naval Ravikant
21. “Self-esteem is just the reputation that you have with yourself.” – Naval Ravikant
22. “If you’re interested now, you’ll be interesting later.” – Naval Ravikant
23. “The price of productivity is creativity.” – Naval Ravikant
24. “The less scheduled you are, the more creative you’re going to be.” – Naval Ravikant
25. “The secret to a happy relationship is two happy people.” – Naval Ravikant
26. “If you aren’t curious about it, you’ll never be good at it.” – Naval Ravikant
27. “If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.” – Naval Ravikant
28. “Self-awareness is the most attractive trait.” – Naval Ravikant
29. “Be like family to your friends, a friend to strangers, and a stranger to your enemies.” – Naval Ravikant
30. “If the work doesn’t require creativity, delegate it, automate it, or leave it.” – Naval Ravikant
31. “To measure the quality of your life, simply do nothing, and see how it feels.” – Naval Ravikant
32. “The more seriously you take yourself, the unhappier you’re going to be.” – Naval Ravikant
33. “The ability to stay calm during conflict is a superpower.” – Naval Ravikant
34. “It’s not the thing itself we fear, it’s our reaction to it.” – Naval Ravikant
35. “Be conservative in your behavior, be liberal in your tolerance.” – Naval Ravikant
36. “If you need a degree to do it, it’s not going to make you wealthy.” – Naval Ravikant
37. “No technique of the mind will free you from the mind.” – Naval Ravikant
38. “The only real test of intelligence is if you get what you want out of life.” – Naval Ravikant
39. “Write to learn, not to teach.” – Naval Ravikant
40. “The larger the group, the worse the conversation.” – Naval Ravikant
41. Love is what remains when all other emotions are gone. – Naval Ravikant
42. “Accepting is no substitute for understanding.” – Naval Ravikant
43. “Bless the haters, because when they disappear, so do the fans.” – Naval Ravikant
44. “A permanent solution to a temporary problem becomes a permanent problem.” – Naval Ravikant
45. “Read what you love until you love to read.” – Naval Ravikant
46. “Knowledge is discovered collectively, wisdom is rediscovered individually.” – Naval Ravikant
47. “You are a story that you tell yourself.” – Naval Ravikant
48. “The world is full of teachers but devoid of students.” – Naval Ravikant
49. “If you create it for yourself, it’s art. If you create it for others, it’s business.” – Naval Ravikant
50. “Tears are just attachments pouring back out.” – Naval Ravikant
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FAQ
As of June 2020, Naval Ravikant’s net worth was at $60 million.
Naval Ravikant is an Indian-American entrepreneur and investor. He is the co-founder, chairman and former CEO of AngelList.
Yes. In 2013, Naval Ravikant married Krystle Cho.
Yes. Kamal Ravikant is the brother of Naval Ravikant.
Ravikant was born in Mumbai, India in 1974. He moved to New York with his mother and his brother, Kamal, when he was 9.
