Tim Ferriss Quotes
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You can lose money and make it back, you can't do that with time.
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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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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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You think you're fatigued, therefore you can't exercise. In fact, you choose not to move, therefore you feel fatigued.
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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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When you try to do something big its hard to fail completely.
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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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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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The most important actions are never comfortable.
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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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Effectiveness is doing the things that get you closer to your goals. Efficiency is performing a given task (whether important or not) in the most economical manner possible. Being efficient without regard to effectiveness is the default mode of the universe.
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Doing the unrealistic is easier than doing the realistic.
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The decent method you follow is better than the perfect method you quit.
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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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Most inputs are useless and time is wasted in proportion to the amount that is available.
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What do you want?' is too imprecise to produce a meaningful and actionable answer.
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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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Being selective-doing less-is the path of the productive. Focus on the important few and ignore the rest.
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Resolve to do one thing every day that you fear.
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Perfection is an impossible destination.