Naval Ravikant Quotes

I don't really try to pattern myself after any particular person. I pretty much make it up as I go along.

Independence was something I really wanted from a young age and I think it really helped me make sense of myself, more so than perhaps say going to university would have done.

My job is to be OK without a precise plan.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

Everything comes out of what works for me.

For me, a happy ending is not everything works out just right and there is a big bow, it's more coming to a place where a person has a clear vision of his or her own life in a way that enables them to kind of throw down their crutches and walk.

I don't plan a career. That doesn't work for me. I just have to go with my gut.

My family advocates doing what fulfills your soul. They've always said, 'You're a big girl; figure it out on your own.'

For me, the times in my life when I've been single have been more formative and crucial than I could have imagined. I can cope, function and be happy on my own. I'm highly capable. That doesn't mean I don't like being with a partner, or that I don't feel more rounded when I'm with someone. But the times on my own have been so good.

In a very slow way, I found my path. Even now, I think, 'If I can't do it my way, I'd rather not do it.'

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

You come to realize that only one person can tell you what's expected of you, and that's you.

My life choices are not supposed to be the gateway to somebody else's. That's my journey.

I thought I never wanted to be on TV. I was dead wrong. I'm almost always dead wrong about the things I think I want, vs. when I just go with the flow, I'm always happy where I end up.

You can work for other people and still be a #GIRLBOSS; it's more about a state of mind and knowing yourself well enough to know when you're making decisions for yourself or because the world expects them of you. And guess what? It's okay to do that sometimes, too.

You have to find it. No one else can find it for you.

I don't think anybody can be told how to act. I think you can give advice. But you have to find your own way through it.

Growing up is not being so dead-set on making everybody happy.

When I was younger, all I cared about was what people thought of me and my films. Now I care less about catering, hand-serving, hand-feeding the audience. I've gotten to the point now in my life where I'm serving myself.

From now on, I'll connect the dots my own way.

I have found people don't want to be told. That they can figure it out.

I was allowed to wander where I could. Here is a case in which you search for your independence and allow something creative to come out of that.

It's nice to be able to, you know, for me to be able to personally do whatever the heck I feel like, whether I think that I can justify it exactly in business concerns or not.

I tell my son Corey that the greatest teacher is the teacher who says, 'Don't follow me; follow yourself. Because within you there is that kingdom, that life, that force.'

There is something transformative about the act of finding your own way without a to-do list.