110+ Naval Ravikant Quotes for Navigating Life's Challenges and Unlocking Success

Naval Ravikant is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, and thinker who has made significant contributions to the tech industry. He co-founded AngelList, a platform that connects startups with investors, and has been involved in various successful ventures. Naval is also known for his insightful thoughts on topics such as happiness, wealth, and personal growth, which he shares through podcasts, interviews, and social media. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Naval Ravikant on money, happiness, life.

Top 10 Naval Ravikant Quotes

1. The best diet is the “no excuses” diet and the best workout is the “man up” workout.
2. Caught in a funk? Use meditation, music, and exercise to reset your mood. Then choose a new path to commit emotional energy for rest of day.
3. A lot of people think you can go to school and you can study for how to make money, but the reality is, there’s no skill called business.
4. The heart decides, the head rationalizes.
5. Be authentic to escape competition, find what you know how to do better than anybody because you love to do it and it feels like play, and get to retirement.
6. Sit down, close your eyes, get in a comfortable position, and whatever happens, happens. If you think, you think. If you don’t think, you don’t think. Don’t put any effort into it.
7. The less you want something, the less you’re thinking about it, the less you’re obsessing over it, the more you’re going to do it in a natural way.
8. Anything deep is interesting.
9. Looking forward to holidays takes the joy out of everyday.
10. Your real resumé is a painful recounting of all of your struggles.

Naval Ravikant Short Quotes

• We are evolved for frequent, visible, small wins.
• As Popper said, In our infinite ignorance we are all equal.
• Anger is a hot coal that you hold in your hand while waiting to throw it at someone else.
• It’s Impossible to Predict the Growth of Knowledge.
• You have to adjust until you find product-market fit.
• If it entertains you now but will bore you someday, it’s a distraction. Keep looking.
• That’s the fundamental delusion.
• If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
• Spend your time in the company of geniuses, sages, children, and books.
• Better motivated on the wrong thing than unmotivated on the right thing.

Naval Ravikant Quotes About Money

The first thing you realize when you make a bunch of money is that you’re still the same person. — Naval Ravikant

All the benefits in life come from compound interest — money, relationships, habits — anything of importance. — Naval Ravikant

I learned how to make money because it was a necessity. — Naval Ravikant

If they wrote it to make money, don’t read it. — Naval Ravikant

Investing favors the dispassionate. Markets efficiently separate emotional investors from their money. — Naval Ravikant

Trade money for time, not time for money. You’re going to run out of time first. — Naval Ravikant

A scientist or an experimentalist gets feedback from Mother Nature, and an entrepreneur gets feedback from a free market in which people vote with their money and time. Those are much better predictors. — Naval Ravikant

Seek wealth, not money or status. — Naval Ravikant

The idea that there’s extra-sovereign money that’s native to the Internet and programmable is foreign to them because their money is always something that has been provided by the government and controlled by the government. They just cannot imagine it any other way. — Naval Ravikant

You retire by saving up enough money, becoming a monk, or by finding work that feels like play to you. — Naval Ravikant

Naval Ravikant Quotes About Happiness

Happiness is a choice and a skill and you can dedicate yourself to learning that skill and making that choice. — Naval Ravikant

I think happiness is a skill, nutrition is a skill, diet is a skill, investing is a skill, self-awareness is a skill. And skills get built up over decades with feedback loops and you just have to constantly keep working on it. — Naval Ravikant

The most important trick to be happy is to realize that happiness is a skill that you develop and a choice that you make. You choose to be happy, and then you work at it. — Naval Ravikant

I think a lot of what we think of happiness is just pleasure. — Naval Ravikant

To me happiness is not about positive thoughts. It’s not about negative thoughts. It’s about the absence of desire, especially the absence of desire for external things. — Naval Ravikant

You can very slowly but steadily and methodically improve your happiness baseline, just like you can improve your fitness. — Naval Ravikant

To live in the present moment is the highest calling. It’s the source of all happiness. — Naval Ravikant

Real happiness only comes as a side-effect of peace. Most of it is going to come from acceptance, not from changing your external environment. — Naval Ravikant

Peace is happiness at rest and what you want most of the time, but you can also convert peace to happiness any time. — Naval Ravikant

If you’re smart, you will choose happiness. You can train yourself to look on the bright side so it becomes second nature. — Naval Ravikant

Naval Ravikant Quotes About Life

The flavor of life is on the edge. — Naval Ravikant

Knowledge workers train, sprint, rest, and re-assess. — Naval Ravikant

It’s harder to guess how life might improve. — Naval Ravikant

If you look back at your life on your deathbed at all the interesting things you’ve done, they’re all going to be centered around the sacrifices you’ve made. — Naval Ravikant

My biggest fear is that I’m going to die without having really lived. — Naval Ravikant

Humans are basically habit machines… I think learning how to break habits is actually a very important meta skill and can serve you in life almost better than anything else. — Naval Ravikant

Forty-hour workweeks are a relic of the Industrial Age. — Naval Ravikant

You don’t want to be the guy who succeeds in life while being high-strung, high-stress, and unhappy while leaving a trail of emotional wreckage for you and your loved ones. — Naval Ravikant

You have just one life. — Naval Ravikant

You have to do hard things to create your own meaning in life. — Naval Ravikant

Naval Ravikant Quotes About Reading

Read the greats in math, science, and philosophy. Ignore your contemporaries and news. Avoid tribal identification. Put truth above social approval. — Naval Ravikant

The real education begins in the library, it begins with books. If you can learn to like to read, you never need to go to school. — Naval Ravikant

The genuine love for reading itself, when cultivated, is a superpower. — Naval Ravikant

You decide it’s important to you. You prioritize it above everything else. You read everything on the topic. — Naval Ravikant

Your most important skill isn’t even what you majored in or even what you studied, it’s just knowing how to learn. If you have a good grasp of mathematics and if you like to read, there’s nothing you can’t learn on your own. — Naval Ravikant

I no longer track books read or even care about books read. It’s about understanding concepts. — Naval Ravikant

A vacation is a very expensive way to schedule the time to read a book in peace. — Naval Ravikant

Reading a book isn’t a race — the better the book, the more slowly it should be absorbed. — Naval Ravikant

Read what you love until you love to read. — Naval Ravikant

I would rather read the best hundred books over and over again until I absorb them rather than read every single book out there. — Naval Ravikant

Naval Ravikant Quotes About Work

No one can compete with you on being you, no one can compete with me on being me, so when I think about what my profession, what my job, what my work is, it’s just being me. — Naval Ravikant

We’re not really here for that long and we don’t really matter that much. And nothing that we do lasts. So eventually you will fade. Your works will fade. Your children will fade. Your thoughts will fade. This planet will fade. The sun will fade. It will all be gone. — Naval Ravikant

The best work is the work you’d do for free. — Naval Ravikant

What you do, who you do with, and how you do it are way more important than how hard you work. — Naval Ravikant

Keep an incredibly high bar for who you work with. — Naval Ravikant

The most important trick to be happy is to realize that happiness is a choice that you make and a skill set that you develop. You choose to be happy, and then you work at it. It’s just like building muscles. — Naval Ravikant

The maximum leverage would mean that you would have people working for you. — Naval Ravikant

You’ll do better work if you’re bored rather than busy. — Naval Ravikant

Earn with your mind, not your time. — Naval Ravikant

Figure out what you’re good at and start helping other people with it; give it away. Pay it forward. Karma sort of works because people are very consistent. On a long enough timescale, you will attract what you project. — Naval Ravikant

Naval Ravikant Quotes About Entrepreneurship

Embrace accountability, and take business risks under your own name. — Naval Ravikant

At the end of the day, we’re all founders. — Naval Ravikant

I would rather be a failed entrepreneur than someone who never tried. Because even a failed entrepreneur has the skill set to make it on their own. — Naval Ravikant

Take business risks under your own name. — Naval Ravikant

Behind every successful entrepreneur is a former failed self. — Naval Ravikant

The most successful entrepreneurs are authentic to who they are. — Naval Ravikant

The best founders are long-term thinkers. — Naval Ravikant

Above product-market fit is founder-product-market fit. — Naval Ravikant

Being a founder is brutally difficult. — Naval Ravikant

In entrepreneurship, the masses are never right. — Naval Ravikant

Naval Ravikant Quotes About Investing

If you eat, invest, and think according to what the ‘news’ advocates, you’ll end nutritionally, financially, and morally bankrupt. — Naval Ravikant

If you eat, invest, and think according to what the ‘news’ advocates, you’ll end up bankrupt. — Naval Ravikant

Invest in startups. Start a company. Create a book, podcast, video. Create a software product. go on many first dates. go to a cocktail party. read a lindy book. move to a big city. buy bitcoin. tweet. — Naval Ravikant

The Efficient Markets Hypothesis fails because humans are herd animals, not independent rational actors. Thus the best investors tend to be antisocial and contrarian. — Naval Ravikant

When building a portfolio of investments that can have non-linear outcomes, never sell early. You may be right most of the time, but the one time you’re wrong will cost you most of the returns. — Naval Ravikant

Smart money is just dumb money that’s been through a crash. — Naval Ravikant

Naval Ravikant Quotes About Technology

I don’t know if this generation is the last mortal generation. — Naval Ravikant

The most powerful people in the world today are the people who are writing the algorithms. — Naval Ravikant

The democratization of technology allows anyone to be a creator, entrepreneur, scientist. The future is brighter. — Naval Ravikant

Technology is not only the thing that moves the human race forward, but it’s the only thing that ever has. Without technology, we’re just monkeys playing in the dirt. — Naval Ravikant

Technology is applied science. Science is the study of nature. Mathematics is the language of nature. Philosophy is the root of mathematics. All tightly interrelated. — Naval Ravikant

Code and media are permissionless leverage. — Naval Ravikant

Naval Ravikant Quotes About Personal Growth

We feel guilt when we no longer want to associate with old friends and colleagues who haven’t changed. — Naval Ravikant

School, politics, sports, and games train us to compete against others. True rewards – wealth, knowledge, love, fitness, and equanimity – come from ignoring others and improving ourselves. — Naval Ravikant

The power to make and break habits and learning how to do that is really important. — Naval Ravikant

The greatest superpower is the ability to change yourself. — Naval Ravikant

Everyone that ends up becoming an extreme winner in society starts off as a loser. — Naval Ravikant

All real success is internal and has very little to do with external circumstances. — Naval Ravikant

You have to surrender, at least a little bit, to be the best version of yourself possible. — Naval Ravikant

Creativity is the last frontier. — Naval Ravikant

We feel guilt when we no longer want to associate with old friends and colleagues who haven’t changed. The price, and marker, of growth. — Naval Ravikant

You’re better off following your genuine intellectual curiosity. — Naval Ravikant

Naval Ravikant Quotes About Mindfulness

You want to rest your mind. You want to learn how to settle into your mind. Now, I look forward to solitary confinement. You leave me alone for a day, it will be the happiest day I’ve had in awhile. That is a superpower that I think everybody can attain. — Naval Ravikant

Watch every thought. Always ask, why am I having this thought? — Naval Ravikant

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

I think to have peace of mind, you have to have peace of body, first. — Naval Ravikant

Some of the greatest investors of our time—people like Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger—are absolute geniuses but cannot wrap their minds around cryptocurrencies. — Naval Ravikant

Enlightenment is the space between your thoughts. — Naval Ravikant

Yoga cultivates Peace of Body. Meditation cultivates Peace of Mind. — Naval Ravikant

A busy calendar and a busy mind will destroy your ability to create anything great. — Naval Ravikant

Happiness is that state when nothing is missing. When nothing is missing, your mind shuts down and your mind stops running into the future or running into the past to regret something or to plan something. — Naval Ravikant

If you want to be effective in business, you need a clear, calm, cool, and collected mind. — Naval Ravikant

Naval Ravikant Famous Quotes And Sayings

Comparing that to mathematics, if necessary truth is the subject matter of mathematics, mathematicians are engaged in creating knowledge about necessary truth. Because a mathematician has a brain—which is a physical object—and all physical objects are subject to making errors of degradation via the second law of thermodynamics—or simply the usual mental mistakes and errors that any human being makes—a mathematician is just as fallible as anyone else. So what they end up proving could be in error. — Naval Ravikant

Knowledge is a skyscraper. You can take a shortcut with a fragile foundation of memorization, or build slowly upon a steel frame of understanding. — Naval Ravikant

The overeducated are worse off than the undereducated, for they traded common sense for the illusion of knowledge. — Naval Ravikant

Information is everywhere but its meaning is created by the observer that interprets it. Meaning is relative and there is no objective, over-arching meaning. — Naval Ravikant

That’s what science is, that whole complicated story about how the particles are moving faster. It’s not about trends and predictions; it’s about explanations. — Naval Ravikant

The Internet is the best school ever created. The best peers are on the Internet. The best books are on the Internet. The best teachers are on the Internet. — Naval Ravikant

The clear thinking comes from having time to reflect and to pursue your genuine intellectual curiosity. — Naval Ravikant

Don’t debate people in the media when you can debate them in the marketplace. — Naval Ravikant

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. — Naval Ravikant

Other people will push you towards the things you’re good at, too. Because your smart bosses, co-workers and investors will realize you’re world-class in this one thing. — Naval Ravikant

There’s a whole set of things we don’t even bother trying to teach. We don’t teach nutrition. We don’t teach cooking. We don’t teach how to be in happy, positive relationships. We don’t teach how to keep your body healthy and fit. We just say sports. We don’t teach happiness. We don’t teach meditation. — Naval Ravikant

You may not be good at hand-to-hand sales, but you may be a really good writer. — Naval Ravikant

I use my tweets and other people’s tweets as maxims that help compress my own learnings and be able to recall them. — Naval Ravikant

So a lot of the information—a lot of the value—is within a particular knowledge-bearing entity. — Naval Ravikant

The longer you go without shipping product, the more likely you will never ship product. — Naval Ravikant

Give society what it doesn’t know how to get. — Naval Ravikant

Authenticity naturally gets you away from competition. — Naval Ravikant

When you’re healthy you have 10000 needs, but when you’re sick you only have one need. — Naval Ravikant

When you look at the greatest artists and creators, they have this ability to start over that nobody else does. — Naval Ravikant

The resolution to this is not to admit nonsense. — Naval Ravikant

We can keep on making progress. — Naval Ravikant

The real struggle isn’t proletariat vs bourgeois. It’s between high-status elites and wealthy elites. When their cooperation breaks, revolution. — Naval Ravikant

If you try to micromanage yourself all you’re going to do is make yourself miserable. — Naval Ravikant

Through creativity, we can always come up with good explanations to improve our lives and everybody else’s lives. — Naval Ravikant

It puts humans and their creativity and their bid to find good explanations back at the core of it. — Naval Ravikant

I’m not a busy person and I’m not busy because I refuse to schedule things. — Naval Ravikant

It’s easier to change yourself than to change the world. — Naval Ravikant

You could also argue that the risk of ruin is so large—you can’t come back from it—that we’re hardwired to be pessimists. — Naval Ravikant

Guard your time. It’s all you have. — Naval Ravikant

So the number of universes still does correspond to what we calculate as the probability. — Naval Ravikant

If you can outsource something or not do something for less than your hourly rate, outsource it or don’t do it. — Naval Ravikant

Networking is overrated. — Naval Ravikant

Suffering is a moment of clarity, when you can no longer deny the truth of a situation and are forced into uncomfortable change. Inside suffering is the seed of change. — Naval Ravikant

What I find is that 90 percent of thoughts that I have are fear. 90 percent are fear based. The other 10 percent are probably desire based. — Naval Ravikant

As you go through your career, you’ll find you gravitate towards the things you’re good at, which by definition are the things you enjoy doing. — Naval Ravikant

You must own equity to gain your financial freedom. — Naval Ravikant

I would love to be paid purely for my judgment. — Naval Ravikant

A contrarian isn’t one who always objects — that’s a conformist of a different sort. A contrarian reasons independently, from the ground up, and resists pressure to conform. — Naval Ravikant

Courage isn’t charging into a machine gun nest. Courage is not caring what other people think. — Naval Ravikant

You’re never going to get rich renting out your time. — Naval Ravikant

What is the fundamental nature of reality? Is it that things can be infinitely divisible, or is that we must stop somewhere or other? If it’s infinitely divisible, then quantum theory might have to be subservient to general relativity. We just don’t know. — Naval Ravikant

Be ruthless about not scheduling things. You will have to disappoint people, but when they want your time, that’s their problem, not yours. — Naval Ravikant

A rational person can find peace by cultivating indifference to things outside of their control. — Naval Ravikant

Apply specific knowledge with leverage and eventually, you will get what you deserve. — Naval Ravikant

Writing is a skill that can be learned much more easily than, say, in-person selling, and so you may just cultivate writing skills until you become a good online communicator and then use that for your sales. — Naval Ravikant

Humans are always signaling. — Naval Ravikant

If you are successful, in the long-term you’ll find you’re almost doing all of your hobbies for a living, no matter what they are. — Naval Ravikant

The laws of physics can’t predict the future. — Naval Ravikant

I wish I had done all of the same things but with less emotion and less anger. — Naval Ravikant

I don’t try to stay focused. I follow my interest. — Naval Ravikant

Embrace the rare ability to start over. — Naval Ravikant

Just be you and wait for the people who want that. — Naval Ravikant

Life Lessons by Naval Ravikant

1. Embrace the power of knowledge: Naval emphasizes the importance of continuous learning and intellectual curiosity. He encourages individuals to dive deep into subjects that interest them, to read extensively, and to seek knowledge beyond traditional educational institutions. By nurturing a thirst for knowledge, one can gain a competitive edge and find fulfillment in the pursuit of personal growth.
2. Seek long-term, sustainable success: Naval advocates for a mindset shift from short-term gains to long-term thinking. He advises individuals to focus on building skills and assets that can generate compounding returns over time. By prioritizing sustainable success, individuals can create a solid foundation for their careers and financial well-being, rather than chasing fleeting opportunities.
3. Cultivate inner peace and happiness: Naval believes that true happiness comes from within and is not solely dependent on external achievements or material possessions. He encourages individuals to prioritize self-reflection, meditation, and inner peace as essential components of a fulfilling life. By nurturing a sense of contentment and gratitude, individuals can find joy and fulfillment regardless of their external circumstances.