Tim Ferriss Quotes
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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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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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I've seen the promised land, and there is good news. You can have it all.
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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'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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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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Happiness can be bought with a bottle of wine and has become ambiguous through overuse.
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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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I gauge success in years, not weeks. The weekend box-office approach to book launches is short sighted and encourages crappy books.
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Exercise is overrated.
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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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Ninety-nine percent of people believe they can't do great things, so they aim for mediocrity.
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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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At least three time per day at scheduled times, he had to ask himself the following question: Am I being productive or just active? Charney captured the essence of this with less-abstract wording: Am I inventing things to do to avoid the important? He eliminated all of the activities he used as crutches and began to focus on demonstrating results instead of showing dedication. Dedication is often just meaningless work in disguise. Be ruthless and cut the fat.
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People are smarter than you think. Give them a chance to prove themselves.
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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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Avoid results-by volume approach, instead focus on few critically important but uncomfortable actions.
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Age doesn't matter. An open mind does.
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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 biggest misconception about work is that you need to spend the majority of your time doing it.
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Life is too short to be small.
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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 the challenge we face doesn't scare us, then it's probably not that important.
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Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to being a winner.