Tim Ferriss Quotes

Simplicity requires ruthlessness.

Tim Ferriss

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• Wealth is the ultimate panacea to poverty.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Poverty
  • Wealth
  • Ultimate

• I looked for the same pitch my whole career, a breaking ball. All of the time. I never worried about the fastball. They couldn't throw it past me, none of them.

  

  Hank Aaron
  • Time
  • Career
  • Past

• It was the era of Tab Hunter and Rock Hudson; they all had a certain look.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • Rock
  • Look
  • Hunter

• I was about to say, 'Avoid fame like the plague,' but you know, they can cure the plague with penicillin these days.

  

  Larry Wall

• If I see an ending, I can work backward.

  

  Arthur Miller
  • Work

• My advice on firing is simple: Treat that person the same way you'd want to be treated if you were in that situation. They're still a good person, just not the right fit. So how do you help them move on in a productive way that allows them to maintain their dignity?

  

  Mary Barra
  • Good
  • Help
  • Simple

• Attitude is attitude, whether you're a West Coast gangster or East Coast gangster, you know?

  

  Paul Walker
  • Attitude
  • Gangster

• I decided to make 'Captain America' because I realized I wasn't doing the film because it terrified me. You can't make decisions based on fear.

  

  Chris Evans
  • America
  • Fear

• I would tell any aspiring designer to take the time to experience everything they can to really get a feel for what direction they want to go in. And most importantly, let your passion and your gut lead you.

  

  Prabal Gurung
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Passion

• If you're climbing big routes that'll take you 16 hours, or, like, El Capitan, you have to take something like a big, robust sandwich. Climbing isn't like running or triathlons, where you have to constantly be eating blocks, gels, and pure sugar. Climbing is relatively slow, so you can pretty much eat anything and digest it as you climb.

  

  Alex Honnold
  • Pretty
  • Running

• Everyone should have cancer one time - then you'd know that other things aren't important. The guy that gives you the finger at the stoplight don't mean nothing anymore. You come home and something's cold, or you didn't get something in the mail. Big deal. You want to get up every day and see your family and your friends.

  

  Bobby Heenan
  • Up
  • Time
  • Important

• I do honestly believe that, in the 21st century, sport is the most significant cultural element in this imperfect world. It calls for serious attention.

  

  Frank Deford
  • World
  • Believe
  • Attention

• I'm one of those people who fiercely guards their privacy, so I hate doing interviews.

  

  Megan Fox
  • People
  • Hate

• I am very aware that there are many of you who have friends and loved ones in the areas affected by this storm who have been displaced or who have not yet been accounted for.

  

  Jo Bonner
  • Friends
  • Storm

• I like to hit the gym early in the morning. I feel better throughout the day when I get in a workout first thing in the morning.

  

  Derek Jeter
  • Morning
  • Gym
  • Workout

• Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.

  

  Douglas MacArthur
  • War
  • Peace
  • Honor

• Makeup is cool. I mean, you can turn up and feel really good and treat yourself, but it shouldn't be something you hang on to to validate your beauty or something you have to do to make you feel beautiful.

  

  Letitia Wright
  • Up
  • Good
  • Beautiful

• A president cannot grow a long-term lack of trust in someone with whom they had full confidence the day before.

  

  John Dickerson
  • Long
  • Trust
  • Confidence

• When my family did shy away from Indian food, we'd eat a lot of Chinese. We'd use the wok a lot. I never had a problem with Brussels sprouts or broccoli growing up. I always grew up with the mentality of finishing your plate.

  

  Parvesh Cheena
  • Up
  • Family
  • Growing

• When I first got into acting, I never had any long-term goals, never had any plan. I just thought it would be a good way to make some extra money.

  

  Dennis Farina
  • Good
  • Long
  • Money

• There is no single development, in either technology or management technique, which by itself promises even one order-of-magnitude improvement within a decade in productivity, in reliability, in simplicity.

  

  Fred Brooks
  • Single
  • Technology
  • Management

• The cliché, God hates the sin but love the sinner, is false on the face of it and should be abandoned. Fourteen times in the first fifty Psalms alone, we are told that God hates the sinner, His wrath is on the liar, and so forth. In the Bible, the wrath of God rests both on the sin (Romans 1:18ff) and on the sinner (John 3:36).

  

  D. A. Carson
  • God
  • Alone
  • Bible

• Simplicity requires ruthlessness.

  

  Tim Ferriss
  • Simplicity
  • Ruthlessness