Tim Ferriss Quotes
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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.
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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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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.
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Becoming a member of the NR is not just about working smarter. It's about building a system to replace yourself.
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Simplicity requires ruthlessness.
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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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Excitement is the more practical synonym for happiness, and it is precisely what you should strive to chase. It is the cure-all.
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After decades of hauling telescopes around in the back of vans and going up to high altitude locations and so forth, I did finally build an observatory, here on Sonoma mountain.
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Many a false step was made by standing still.
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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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The start of the day is often the best time to get things done. This is somewhat related to willpower.
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There are no statues erected to critics.
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Luxury is feeling unrushed. It is designing a life that allows you to do what you want with high leverage, with many options, all while feeling unrushed.
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Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference.
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Awareness, even at a subconscious level, beats fancy checklists without it, track or you will fail.
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What you do is infinitely more important than how you do it.
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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.
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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.
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Short, sweet, and to the point. Clear writing, and therefore clear commands, comes from clear thinking. Think simple.
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Think big and don't listen to people who tell you it can't be done. Life's too short to think small.
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Nothing can match the wonderment that comes from staring up into the star-filled canopy above and realizing that you are a part of that creation.
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There are tons of things in your home and life that you don't use, need, or even particularly want. They just came into your life as impulsive flotsam and jetsam and never found a good exit. Whether you're aware of it or not, this clutter creates indecision and distractions.
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Three ingredients of luxury lifestyle design are time, income, and mobility.
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Money doesn't change you; it reveals who you are when you no longer have to be nice.