Tim Ferriss Quotes
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It's not enough to have the right answers. You have to have the right questions.
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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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Excitement is the more practical synonym for happiness, and it is precisely what you should strive to chase. It is the cure-all. When people suggest you follow your "passion" or your "bliss," I propose that they are, in fact, referring to the same singular concept: excitement. This brings us full circle. The question you should be asking isn't, "What do I want?" or "What are my goals?" but "What would excite me?"
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If you don't have time, you don't have priorities.
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I discourage passive skepticism, which is the armchair variety where people sit back and criticize without ever subjecting their theories or themselves to real field testing.
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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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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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For the employee, the goal is to have full access to necessary information and as much independent decision-making ability as possible. For the entrepreneur, the goal is to grant as much information and independent decision-making ability to employees or contractors as possible.
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The book is first and foremost something I made for myself.
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Someday is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you.
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Don't suffer fools or you'll become one.
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I'm prepared to do battle for a dream that is worth dreaming.
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If the challenge we face doesn't scare us, then it's probably not that important.
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There is always more information than attention.
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Don’t follow a model that doesn't work. If the recipe sucks, it doesn't matter how good a cook you are.
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Age doesn't matter. An open mind does.
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Sometimes you need to go on a low-information diet.
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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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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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Creating demand is hard. Filling demand is easier. Don't create a product, then seek someone to sell it to. Find a market - define your customers - then find or develop a product for them.
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The only rules and limits are those we set for ourselves.
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I really feel like knife skills - not just in the kitchen, but in life - are really critical.
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A goal without real consequences is wishful thinking. Good follow-through doesn't depend on the right intentions. It depends on the right incentives.