Tim Ferriss Quotes
For all their bitching about what’s holding them back, most people have a lot of trouble coming up with the defined dreams they’re being held from.
Pacifists become militants. Freedom fighters become tyrants. Blessings become curses. Help becomes hindrance. More becomes less.
Creating demand is hard. Filling demand is easier. Don't create a product, then seek someone to sell it to. Find a market - define your customers - then find or develop a product for them.
The goal is not to simply eliminate the bad, which does nothing more than leave you with a vacuum, but to pursue and experience the best in the world.
Excitement is the more practical synonym for happiness, and it is precisely what you should strive to chase. It is the cure-all.
To enjoy life, you don't need fancy nonsense, but you do need to control your time and realize that most things just aren't as serious as you make them out to be.
There is a direct correlation between am increased sphere of comfort and getting what you want.
Awareness, even at a subconscious level, beats fancy checklists without it, track or you will fail.
In a digital world, there are numerous technologies that we are attached to that create infinite interruption.
Being busy is a form of laziness - lazy thinking and indiscriminate action. Being busy is most often used as a guise for avoiding the few critically important but uncomfortable actions.
The key to having more time is doing less, and there are two paths to get there, both of which should be used together: (1) Define a short to-do list and (2) define a not-to-do list.
Ninety-nine percent of people believe they can't do great things, so they aim for mediocrity.
Just as modern man consumes both too many calories and calories of no nutritional value, information workers eat data both in excess and from the wrong sources.
People don't want to be millionaires - they want to experience what they believe only millions can buy.
I value self-discipline, but creating systems that make it next to impossible to misbehave is more reliable than self-control.
It's amazing how someone's IQ seems to double as soon as you give them responsibility and indicate that you trust them.
Avoid results-by volume approach, instead focus on few critically important but uncomfortable actions.
Personally, I now aim for one month of overseas relocation or high-intensity learning (tango, fighting, whatever) for every two months of work projects.
Information is useless if it is not applied to something important or if you will forget it before you have a chance to apply it.
I really feel like knife skills - not just in the kitchen, but in life - are really critical.
Massive elimination is the most important step and the most neglected step for entrepreneurs.
People who avoid all criticism fail. It's destructive criticism we need to avoid, not criticism in all forms.
I do not equate productivity to happiness. For most people, happiness in life is a massive amount of achievement plus a massive amount of appreciation. And you need both of those things.
World barista champions use the AeroPress to make coffee on the folding tray tables of airplanes.
Everyone is going to binge on a diet, for instance, so plan for it, schedule it, and contain the damage.
The first thing I would do for anyone who's trying to lose body fat, for instance, would be to remove foods from the house that he or she would consume during lapses of self-control.
Never check email first thing in the morning. Instead, complete your most important task before 11:00 A.M. to avoid using lunch or reading email as a postponement excuse.
The universe doesn't conspire against you, but it doesn't go out of its way to line up the pins either. Conditions are never perfect.
Learn to ask, "If this is the only thing I accomplish today, will I be satisfied with my day?"
