Tim Ferriss Quotes

To make a bestseller, there are more customers than just your customers: Selling to the end-user is just one piece of the puzzle. In my case, I needed to first sell myself to the publisher to get marketing support and national retail distribution.

Tim Ferriss

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• I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Me
  • Jesus
  • Ideas

• The genius which runs to madness is no longer genius.

  

  Otto Weininger
  • Genius
  • Madness
  • Which

• I try to write down every song that comes to me, even though I know that every song that comes to me isn't a song that I need to sing.

  

  Valerie June
  • Song
  • Me
  • Down

• Any time you bring sexuality into the comics pages, you have to brace for pushback.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Time
  • You
  • Sexuality

• I must tell you, I haven't done the drug problem that is faced by cops and people on the border. It's a hard show to do, but I think it's going to say a lot about drugs and the problems related to them. I just hope people can watch it, it's a pretty strong show.

  

  Aaron Spelling
  • People
  • Done
  • Hope

• I couldn't hold it together today. George Clooney asked me if I was OK, and I practically collapsed. I couldn't stop crying, I had to go off sobbing like an idiot.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Today
  • Stop
  • Crying

• It makes me so desperately sad to witness just how unforgivably wretched our world has become.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • World
  • Me
  • Sad

• Because of technological limits, there is a certain amount of food that we can produce per acre. If we were to have intensive greenhouse agriculture, we could have much higher production.

  

  Ralph Merkle
  • Food
  • Technology
  • Limits

• The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Man
  • Law
  • Wise

• I really do feel like I'm in better shape and look better now - even after having three kids - than I did before.

  

  Candace Cameron Bure
  • Kids
  • Feel
  • Better

• As an early child, I tried to play every kind of music that I heard. I thought everyone was doing that.

  

  Allen Toussaint
  • Music
  • Child
  • Heard

• The young are going to be the messengers of this continued strengthening of the diversity in America.

  

  Barack Obama
  • America
  • Diversity
  • Messengers

• In order for us to solve many big problems around the world, it is in our interest to work with Russia and obtain their cooperation.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Work

• You know, equality is a myth, and for some reason, everyone accepts the fact that women don't make as much money as men do. I don't understand that. Why do we have to take a backseat? I truly believe that women should be financially independent from their men. And let's face it, money gives men the power to run the show. It gives men the power to define value. They define what's sexy. And men define what's feminine. It's ridiculous.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Men
  • Women
  • Power

• They (FEMA officials) just don't have their act together, ... They didn't know where their evacuees are; they didn't know how many each state had. Those are basic questions. You need competence at the top to manage these large-scale disasters.

  

  Janet Napolitano
  • Questions
  • Act
  • Disasters

• The actualising of God through the medium of the love song remains my prime motivation as an artist.

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
  • God
  • Song
  • Artist

• We are a nation built on principles of freedom, and high on the list of freedoms is freedom of religious expression.

  

  Alexander Acosta
  • Freedom
  • Religious
  • Expression

• Don't give me truth, just give me gossip And skeletons from people's closets, I wanna be normal And millions buy it, I am blinded by The SUN.

  

  Benjamin Zephaniah
  • Truth
  • Sun
  • Gossip

• There is a Jim Holmes of Aurora, Colorado, page on the Colorado Tea Party site as well, talking about him joining the Tea Party last year. Now we don’t know if this is the same Jim Holmes - but this is Jim Holmes of Aurora, Colorado.

  

  Brian Ross
  • Tea Party
  • Colorado
  • Aurora

• There were actually times where I thought, 'Do people even remember us? Are people gonna be interested in hearing what we put out next? 'And, you know, there were times I felt like, 'Are there going to be people out there waiting for this record?'. So we kind of live in a bubble, in a sense. We're very closed off to that whole world of thinking about those kinds of things.

  

  Ray Toro My Chemical Romance
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Remember

• I sat in at every club in New York City, jamming with musicians, because it felt right - and because it felt right and we were having fun - the people dancing and sipping their drinks in the clubs felt it too and it made them smile.

  

  Ray Conniff
  • People
  • Dancing
  • Having

• To make a bestseller, there are more customers than just your customers: Selling to the end-user is just one piece of the puzzle. In my case, I needed to first sell myself to the publisher to get marketing support and national retail distribution.

  

  Tim Ferriss
  • Customers
  • Puzzle
  • Publisher