Tim Ferriss Quotes
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Happiness has a very short half-life.
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Learn to be difficult when it counts. In school as in life, having a reputation for being assertive will help you receive preferential treatment without having to beg or fight for it every time.
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Learn the art of the pitch and of messaging.
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Language learning deserves special mention. It is, bar none, the best thing you can do to hone clear thinking.
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Believe it or not, it is not only possible to accomplish more by doing less, it is mandatory. Enter the world of elimination.
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Having a size 9 foot is fantastic because almost all of the shoe companies do their prototyping in size 9, so if you visit a place like Nike headquarters, you can try every sort of wacky, out-there model.
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There are certain things I will automate, but when it comes to quality control, I want to keep a very close eye.
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Doing less is not being lazy. Don't give in to a culture that values personal sacrifice over personal productivity.
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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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There is an infinite selection of things that I could test in life, so I generally will look for a critical mass of word that comes back to me. At this point I have hundreds of friends who are the best at what they do, arguably number one in the country or in the world. I will oftentimes just kind of throw a volley out to people, ask them what they're obsessing on or what they find interesting that's on the fringe. If the same answer comes back a few times, I'm like, "Okay."
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I'll repeat something you might consider tattooing on your forehead: What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.
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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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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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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.
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The way we measure productivity is flawed. People checking their BlackBerry over dinner is not the measure of productivity.
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To have an uncommon lifestyle, you need to develop the uncommon habit of making decisions, both for yourself and for others.
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Happiness can be bought with a bottle of wine and has become ambiguous through overuse.
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There are two components that are fundamental to enjoy life and feel good about yourself: continual learning and service.
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Being efficient without regard to effectiveness is the default mode of the universe.
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If you spend your time, worth $20-25 per hour, doing something that someone else will do for $10 per hour, it's simply a poor use of resources.
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The key to having more time is doing less, and there are two paths to get there, both of which should be used together: Define a short to-do list and define a not-to-do list.
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The biggest misconception about work is that you need to spend the majority of your time doing it.
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People are fond of using the its not what you know, its who you know adage as an excuse for inaction, as if all successful people are born with powerful friends. Nonsense.
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The problem with New Year's resolutions - and resolutions to 'get in better shape' in general, which are very amorphous - is that people try to adopt too many behavioral changes at once. It doesn't work. I don't care if you're a world-class CEO - you'll quit.