You’re not going to get rich renting out your time.
Genuine
Yes. In How to Get Rich (without getting lucky) (2018), “You Won’t Get Rich Renting Out Your Time” (Nivi reading the tweet), nav.al/rich.
Checked against Naval Ravikant and Nivi, ‘How to Get Rich’ (collected interviews on the tweetstorm, posted 28 December 2019), nav.al/rich, section “You Won’t Get Rich Renting Out Your Time”, section “You Won’t Get Rich Renting Out Your Time”, in a full-text transcription.
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- Work
- How to Get Rich (without getting lucky), 2018
- Where
- “You Won’t Get Rich Renting Out Your Time” (Nivi reading the tweet), nav.al/rich
- Source
- Naval Ravikant and Nivi, ‘How to Get Rich’ (collected interviews on the tweetstorm, posted 28 December 2019), nav.al/rich, section “You Won’t Get Rich Renting Out Your Time”, section “You Won’t Get Rich Renting Out Your Time”
- Checked
- In a full-text transcription
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About this quote
The scene
Nivi, Naval’s co-founder at AngelList, reads out the tweet from the ‘How to Get Rich (without getting lucky)’ tweetstorm and asks Naval to expand. Naval calls it one of the most important points: in a salaried job, even a well-paid one, income stops when you stop working, so earnings cannot grow non-linearly.
What it means
Pay for hours caps what you can earn; owning a share of something that works without you is the way out.
Topics
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- Imitation is suicide. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Naval Ravikant, How to Get Rich (without getting lucky) (2018), “You Won’t Get Rich Renting Out Your Time” (Nivi reading the tweet), nav.al/rich. Checked at Quotogeny, https://quotogeny.com/q/you-wont-get-rich-renting-out-your-time/ (25 October 2026).
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