Tim Ferriss Quotes
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The opposite of love is indifference, and the opposite of happiness is boredom.
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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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I work hard, but in spurts.
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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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Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.
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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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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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The biggest misconception about work is that you need to spend the majority of your time doing it.
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If the challenge we face doesn't scare us, then it's probably not that important.
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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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The blind quest for cash is a fool's errand.
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Avoid results-by volume approach, instead focus on few critically important but uncomfortable actions.
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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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What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.
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I've seen the promised land, and there is good news. You can have it all.
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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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Life is too short to be small.
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Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to being a winner.
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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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You can lose money and make it back, you can't do that with time.
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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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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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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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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.