Tim Ferriss Quotes
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Tomorrow becomes never. No matter how small the task, take the first step now!
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Emphasize strengths, don't fix weaknesses.
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An entrepreneur isn't someone who owns a business, it's someone who makes things happen.
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Fun things happen when you earn dollars, live on pesos, and compensate in rupees.
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What I don't like is snark for snark's sake. If you are going to make fun of me, at least be witty while doing it.
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Get good at being a troublemaker and saying sorry when you really screw up.
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Uncertainty and the prospect of failure can be very scary noises in the shadows. Most people will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.
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Learn to be difficult when it counts.
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If you see distraction externally, you end up creating an internally distracted state.
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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.
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With a decrease in the number of pirates, there has been an increase in global warming over the same period. Therefore, global warming is caused by a lack of pirates. Even more compelling: Somalia has the highest number of Pirates AND the lowest Carbon emissions of any country. Coincidence?
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Reality is negotiable.
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If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is, too.
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Slowing down doesn't mean accomplishing less; it means cutting out counterproductive distractions and the perception of being rushed.
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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.
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At its core, I don't view Facebook as a social network. I think it could become the driver's license of the Internet. And beyond that, it can become the pipes and the plumbing upon what most of the Internet is built. I think it's very well positioned.
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Food became for me a way of becoming self-sufficient with my hands, to regain manual literacy, which I think has been lost on our generation and certainly younger generations. Very few people can actually make things with their hands and do things with their hands.
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For all of the most important things, the timing always sucks. Waiting for a good time to quit your job? The stars will never align and the traffic lights of life will never all be green at the same time. 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. "Someday" is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you. Pro and con lists are just as bad. If it's important to you and you want to do it "eventually," just do it and correct course along the way.
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The best entrepreneurs I've ever met are all good communicators. It's perhaps one of the very few unifying factors.
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Fear is your friend. It is an indicator. Sometimes it shows you what you shouldn't do, more often than not it shows you what you should do.
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I open each class with an explanation of the singular importance of being a "dealmaker." The manifesto of the dealmaker is simple: Reality is negotiable.
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In a digital world, there are numerous technologies that we are attached to that create infinite interruption.
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The benefits of becoming fluent in a foreign tongue are as underestimated as the difficulty is overestimated. Thousands of theoretical linguists will disagree, but I know from research and personal experimentation with more than a dozen languages that adults can learn languages much faster than children when constant 9-5 work is removed and that it is possible to become conversationally fluent in any language in six months or less. At four hours per day, six months can be whittled down to less than three months.
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Just a few words on time management: forget all about it.