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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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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Sometimes you need to go on a low-information diet.
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The decent method you follow is better than the perfect method you quit.
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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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Doing the unrealistic is easier than doing the realistic.
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Do not expect work to fill a void that non-work relationships and activities should Work is not all of life. Your co-workers shouldn't be your only friends. Schedule life and defend it just as you would an important business meeting. Never tell yourself "I'll just get it done this weekend."
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Most inputs are useless and time is wasted in proportion to the amount that is available.
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When you try to do something big its hard to fail completely.
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I didn't even like white wine. Then I tasted it and bought a case. It was the first case of any wine I'd ever bought.
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If you don't have time, the truth is, you don't have priorities. Think harder; don't work harder.
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Resolve to do one thing every day that you fear.
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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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I have plenty of money to do what I want to do, and I have the relationships.
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But if it's tolerable mediocrity, and you're like, 'Well, you know it could be worse. At least I'm getting paid.' Then you wind up in a job that is slowly killing your soul and you're allowing that to happen. Comfort can be a very, very dangerous thing.
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I'm not averse to making a lot of money. But where does that end? I hang out with people with hundreds of millions of dollars. Is that the standard by which I should measure myself? Where does that take you if you're in my business? I think it takes you to pretty dark, corrupt places.
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What do you want?' is too imprecise to produce a meaningful and actionable answer.
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Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference. Being busy is a form of mental laziness-lazy thinking and indiscriminate action.
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Being selective-doing less-is the path of the productive. Focus on the important few and ignore the rest.