Tim Ferriss > Quotes

“Am I being productive, or just active?
Am I inventing things to do, to avoid the important?
Focus on demonstrating results instead of showing dedication.”
― Tim Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek: The 4-Hour Workweek Summary

“What might you do to accomplish your 10-year goals in the next 6 months, if you had a gun against your head?”
― Tim Ferriss

“Being overwhelmed is often as unproductive as doing nothing, and is far more unpleasant. Being selective - doing less - is the path of the productive. Focus on the important few and ignore the rest.”
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“The best results in life are often held back by false constructs and untested assumptions.”
― Tim Ferriss

“Reality is negotiable. Outside of science and law, all rules can be bent or broken, and it doesn’t require being unethical.”
― Tim Ferriss

“What you do is more important than how you do everything else, and doing something well does not make it important.”
― Tim Ferriss

“Develop the habit of letting small bad things happen. If you don't, you'll never find time for the life-changing big things.”
― Tim Ferriss

“Think big and don't listen to people who tell you it can't be done. Life's too short to think small.”
― Tim Ferriss

“If you're having trouble making yourself happy, try to make someone else happy.”
― Tim Ferriss

“You are the average of the five people you associate with most.”
― Tim Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek: The 4-Hour Workweek Summary

“most important skill for getting rich is becoming a perpetual learner.”
― Tim Ferriss, The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness

“If you want to succeed in any holistic capacity, you cannot do it if you merely tolerate yourself.”
― Tim Ferriss

“If you want an average, successful life, it doesn’t take much planning. Just stay out of trouble, go to school, and apply for jobs you might like. But if you want something extraordinary, you have two paths: 1) Become the best at one specific thing. 2) Become very good (top 25%) at two or more things.”
― Tim Ferriss

“This type of practice is how you create yourself, instead of seeking to discover yourself. There is value in the latter, but it’s mostly past-tense: It’s a rearview mirror. Looking out the windshield is how you get where you want to go.”
― Tim Ferriss

“I’m no superhero. I’m not even a consistent “normal.”
― Tim Ferriss, Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers

“How do you cut time without cutting corners?”
― Tim Ferriss

“Just Remember: You are never as Good as they say you are, and you are never as Bad as they say you are.”
― Tim Ferriss

“The vital difference between practicing to get something you think you lack, and practicing to express the fullness of who you are. - Sharon Salzberg”
― Tim Ferriss

“You’re not doing meetings for meetings’ sake, you’re not trying to impress other people, you’re not writing things down to make it look like you did work. All you care about is the actual work itself. When you do just the actual work itself, you’ll be far more productive, far more efficient. You’ll work when you feel like it—when you’re high-energy—and you won’t be trying to struggle through when you’re low energy. You’ll gain your time back.”
― Tim Ferriss, The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness

“Books are a socially validated way to procrastinate.”
― Tim Ferriss

“Two hundred crappy words per day, that's it.”
― Tim Ferriss

“The stars will never align, and the traffic lights of life will never all be green at the same time. The universe doesn’t conspire against you, but it doesn’t go out of its way to line up the pins either. Conditions are never perfect. ‘Someday’ is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you. Pro and con lists are just as bad. If it’s important to you, and you want to do it ‘eventually,’ just do it and correct course along the way.”
― Tim Ferriss, The 4-Hour Work Week: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich

“In effect: The most important voice we ever hear in our lives, is the voice that no one else hears - It’s the voice in our own heads.”
― Tim Ferriss

“Don’t follow a model that doesn’t work. If the recipe sucks, it doesn’t matter how good a cook you are.”
― Tim Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek: The 4-Hour Workweek Summary

“Pain is never out of season if you go shopping for it.”
― Tim Ferriss, NEW-Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World

“Challenges are not roadblocks, they are opportunities to grow and become stronger.”
― Tim Ferriss, 17 questions that changed my life

“When you do just the actual work itself, you’ll be far more productive, far more efficient. You’ll work when you feel like it—when you’re high-energy—and you won’t be trying to struggle through when you’re low energy. You’ll gain your time back.”
― Tim Ferriss, The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness

“A person’s success in life can be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have.”
― Tim Ferriss

“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let go of doubt and embrace possibility.”
― Tim Ferriss, 17 questions that changed my life

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
― Tim Ferriss, 17 questions that changed my life