Tim Ferriss Quotes
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What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.
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Avoid results-by volume approach, instead focus on few critically important but uncomfortable actions.
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It is far more lucrative and fun to leverage your strengths instead of attempting to fix all the chinks in your armor. The choice is between multiplication of results using strenths or incremental improvement fixing weaknesses that will, at best, become mediocre. Focus on better use of your best weapons instead of constant repair.
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Exercise is overrated.
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As far as income goes, there are three currencies in the world; most people ignore two. The three currencies are time, income and mobility, in descending order of importance. Most people focus exclusively on income.
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Happiness can be bought with a bottle of wine and has become ambiguous through overuse.
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Pacifists become militants. Freedom fighters become tyrants. Blessings become curses. Help becomes hindrance. More becomes less.
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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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People who avoid all criticism fail. It's destructive criticism we need to avoid, not criticism in all forms.
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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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I've seen the promised land, and there is good news. You can have it all.
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Someday is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you.
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Companies that start by redesigning the economics of an industry often finish by redesigning the whole industry-and owning it.
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Ninety-nine percent of people believe they can't do great things, so they aim for mediocrity.
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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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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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Resveratrol is fascinating stuff. One of the best sources of information about it is the Immortality Institute. They have a forum where some people are in the 500 Club, as they call it. They've been taking 500 milligrams for years. It's a really great source of data.
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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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It's not enough to have the right answers. You have to have the right questions.
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I gauge success in years, not weeks. The weekend box-office approach to book launches is short sighted and encourages crappy books.