Tim Ferriss Quotes
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Just because you are embarrassed to admit that you're still living the consequences of bad decisions made 5, 10, 20 years ago shouldn't stop you from making good decisions now. If you let pride stop you, you will hate life 5, 10, and 20 years from now for the same reasons.
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I work hard, but in spurts.
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The best results I have had in my life; the most enjoyable times, have all come from asking the simple question: 'What is the worst that could happen?'
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If the challenge we face doesn't scare us, then it's probably not that important.
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People frequently fail when they try to do everything at once. They approach a massive project and quickly get discouraged. Taking small, but high-value steps takes less time, and you learn more in the long run.
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Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.
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A recession is very bad for publicly traded companies, but it's the best time for startups. When you have massive layoffs, there's more competition for available jobs, which means that an entrepreneur can hire freelancers at a lower cost.
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You can lose money and make it back, you can't do that with time.
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It is predicated on the assumption that you dislike what you are doing during the most physically capable years of your life. This is a nonstarter—nothing can justify that sacrifice.
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Requiring a lot of time does not make a task important.
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If you don't have time, you don't have priorities.
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Being busy is a form of laziness - lazy thinking and indiscriminate action. Being busy is most often used as a guise for avoiding the few critically important but uncomfortable actions.
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What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.
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It isn't enough to think outside the box. Thinking is passive. Get used to acting outside the box.
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Remember—boredom is the enemy, not some abstract "failure.
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Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to being a winner.
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Just because something has been a lot of work or consumed a lot of time doesn't make it productive or worthwhile.
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The blind quest for cash is a fool's errand.
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People really do think they have to choose between high stress and high reward jobs, and low stress and low reward jobs.
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Role models who push us to exceed our limits, physical training that removes our spare tires, and risks that expand our sphere of comfortable action are all examples of eustress—stress that is healthful and the stimulus for growth.
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If you look at the purported dangers of salt or fat, there is no consensus of support in scientific literature. So I would ask first: 'Is it possible to have an informed government that actually follows the science?' From what I've seen, it's not likely.
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I think time management as a label encourages people to view each 24-hour period as a slot in which they should pack as much as possible.
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Seemingly unrelated things that are in fact really related, that's the stuff I like to talk about. Like dancing, language learning, swimming, three-pointers.
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Life is too short to be small.