Tim Ferriss Quotes
Companies that start by redesigning the economics of an industry often finish by redesigning the whole industry-and owning it.
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Clients don't expect perfection from the service providers they hire, but they do expect honesty and transparency. There is no better way to demonstrate this than by acknowledging when a mistake has been made and humbly apologizing for it.
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The West was involved in toppling the Mossadegh government. That ultimately led to the Iranian revolution.
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Everybody in the black community must organize, and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or not, but not until we are organized.
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I am a pretty level-headed person, but that person, Harry Reid, has been the most destructive entity in Washington when it comes to civility. By far.
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God may not play dice but he enjoys a good round of Trivial Pursuit every now and again.
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No, you will never see me on 'Dancing With the Stars.' Sorry.
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I just want to continue with gymnastics because I'm still young and fresh. I think can get some more titles under my belt.
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The glass is always half full: I have no time for anything negative - and actually, I've bought crystals for all my team, so they all carry crystals as well.
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There's so many different people that I'm fascinated by. Different kinds of characters that I meet in, like, everyday life, that I'm like, 'I don't know how you exist. Like, you're so fascinating.'
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Not always trainers, but if I don't have to, I don't wear high heels. It's really just if something looks good on me, I'm going to buy it. It can be Zara or Chanel... I'm going to buy it.
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The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation.
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We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.
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It is impossible to objectively define how free a market is. This is a political definition. Government is always involved, and those free marketers are as politically motivated as anyone.
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Expertise and judgment in the art of lending for novel ventures must be reacquired.
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I've learned that under everyone's hard shell is someone who wants to be appreciated and loved.
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It is the camp law: people going to their death must be deceived to the very end. This is the only permissible form of charity.
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Women have to work much harder to make it in this world. It really pisses me off that women don't get the same opportunities as men do, or money for that matter. Because lets face it, money gives men the power to run the show. It gives men the power to define our values and to define what's sexy and what's feminine and that's bullshit. At the end of the day, it's not about equal rights, it's about how we think. We have to reshape our own perception of how we view ourselves.
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I have never felt that the primary use of these things was to cure what is called in modern parlance neurosis, what I call unhappiness. It isn't for that.
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I was initially very interested in public policy, but then after my masters at Harvard, I felt that it was important to get a better handle on the economics of it as well. I did my Ph.D. in macroeconomics, and my thesis - 'Why Is It That Some Countries Save And Others Not?' - was on savings.
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I knew that it was my only shot to be taken seriously in the recording industry, because it's fast and broad.
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This industry is very make-believe and you caught in a false sense of what reality is.
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Companies that start by redesigning the economics of an industry often finish by redesigning the whole industry-and owning it.
