Tim Ferriss Quotes
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Age doesn't matter. An open mind does.
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But you are the average of the five people you associate with most, so do not underestimate the effects of your pessimistic, unambitious, or disorganized friends. If someone isn't making you stronger, they're making you weaker.
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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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If the challenge we face doesn't scare us, then it's probably not that important.
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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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If you don't have time, you don't have priorities.
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You can lose money and make it back, you can't do that with time.
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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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Requiring a lot of time does not make a task important.
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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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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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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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The blind quest for cash is a fool's errand.
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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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Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to being a winner.
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Remember—boredom is the enemy, not some abstract "failure.
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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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Life is too short to be small.
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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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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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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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Don't suffer fools or you'll become one.