quotes by Timothy Ferriss

"By using money as the scapegoat and work as our all-consuming routine, we are able to conveniently disallow ourselves to do otherwise: 'John, I'd love to talk about the gaping void I feel in my life, the hopelessness that hits me like a punch in the eye every time I start my computer in the morning, but I have so much work to do! I've got at least three hours of unimportant email to reply to before calling prospects who said 'no' yesterday. Gotta run!'"
— Timothy Ferriss (The 4-Hour Work Week: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich)

"The opposite of love is indifference, and the opposite of happiness is boredom."
— Timothy Ferriss (The 4-Hour Work Week: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich)

"The fishing is best where the fewest go and the collective insecurity of the world makes it easy for people to hit home runs while everyone is aiming for base hits."
— Timothy Ferriss

"It's lonely at the top. Ninety-nine percent of people in the world are convinced they are incapable of achieving great things, so they aim for the mediocre. The level of competition is thus fiercest for "realistic" goals, paradoxically making them the most time-consuming and energy consuming. It is easier to raise $10,000,000 than it is $1,000,000. It is easier to pick up the one perfect 10 in the bar than the five 8s."
— Timothy Ferriss

"The blind quest for cash is a fool's errand."
— Timothy Ferriss

"Being busy is a form of laziness - lazy thinking and indiscriminate action."
— Timothy Ferriss

"The first ten minutes of sorting through clothing was like choosing which child of mine should live or die."
— Timothy Ferriss (The 4-Hour Work Week: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich)

"One evening, intending to ask my host mother to wake me the next morning (okosu), I ask her to violently rape me (okasu). She is very confused."
— Timothy Ferriss (The 4-Hour Work Week: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich)

""People will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.""
— Timothy Ferriss (The 4-Hour Work Week: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich)