Tim Ferriss Quotes
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Every time I find myself stressed out, it's because I do things primarily driven by growth.
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It's lonely at the top. Ninety-nine percent of people in the world are convinced they are incapable of achieving great things, so they aim for the mediocre. The level of competition is thus fiercest for "realistic" goals, paradoxically making them the most time-consuming and energy consuming. It is easier to raise $10,000,000 than it is $1,000,000. It is easier to pick up the one perfect 10 in the bar than the five 8s.
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That's precisely the question everyone should be asking-why the hell not? - Why not you, why not now.
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The golden years become lower-middle-class life revisited. That's a bittersweet ending.
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Are you better off than you were one year ago, one month ago, or one week ago? If not, things will not improve by themselves.
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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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If we define risk as 'the likelihood of an irreversible negative outcome,' inaction is the greatest risk of all.
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I always point people to the article '1,000 True Fans' by Kevin Kelly. If you choose your thousand ideal customers or readers properly and find the single author blog that targets that audience, you never have to do any more marketing. You're done. That is a lesson that very few product developers and marketers have learned, and it's unfortunate.
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If someone's criticism is completely unfounded on data, then I don't want to hear it. It doesn't hold up to scrutiny.
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The bottom line is that you only have the rights you fight for.
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But you are the average of the five people you associate with most, so do not underestimate the effects of your pessimistic, unambitious, or disorganized friends. If someone isn't making you stronger, they're making you weaker.
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Poisonous people do not deserve your time. To think otherwise is masochistic.
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Never check email first thing in the morning. Instead, complete your most important task before 11:00 A.M. to avoid using lunch or reading email as a postponement excuse.
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You and your friends could plan the trip of a lifetime in 6-18 months to visit the completed school, teeming with dozens or hundreds of students who greet you with smiles and thank you letters. You'll know it's your school because your names will be on the door.
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The truth is that since the first book, I have wanted to emulate Benjamin Franklin and put together a healthy, wealthy and wise trilogy and so healthy was 'The 4-Hour Body,' wealthy was 'The 4-Hour Workweek' and then wise is 'The 4-Hour Chef.'
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It's amazing how someone's IQ seems to double as soon as you give them responsibility and indicate that you trust them.
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Information is useless if it is not applied to something important or if you will forget it before you have a chance to apply it.
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Most people can do absolutely awe-inspiring things. Sometimes they just need a little nudge.
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I'm not a big believer in long-term planning and far-off goals. In fact, I generally set 3-month and 6-month dreamlines. The variables change too much and in-the-future distance becomes an excuse for postponing action.
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It's very easy to confuse confident motion with being productive - and they're not the same thing. Productive to me means measurable outcomes that apply to my most important to-dos that positively affect my life. That's it.
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The best way to counter-attack a hater is to make it blatantly obvious that their attack has had no impact on you.
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Everyone is going to binge on a diet, for instance, so plan for it, schedule it, and contain the damage.
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If you take a strong stance and have a clear opinion or statement on any subject online, you're going to polarize people. And without that polarity, there's no discussion. Discussion is what I want, which means that I'm fine with the consequences.
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I will take as a given that, for most people, somewhere between six and seven billion of them, the perfect job is the one that takes the least time.