The 4-Hour Workweek Quotes

“Make this trade a habit. Let the small bad things happen and make the big good things happen.”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

“«Sé cuánto os repatea ver cómo me lo paso, pero ¿a que no adivináis dónde estoy?».”
― Timothy Ferriss, La semana laboral de 4 horas

“Ahora sólo necesita saber cómo explotar su libertad y dar con las herramientas que le permitan vivir con su dinero finito una vida de posibilidades casi infinitas.”
― Timothy Ferriss, La semana laboral de 4 horas

“Segundo: ¡los entrevistadores, aburridos de sus propios trabajos, se pasarán toda la reunión preguntándote cómo lo hiciste! Si te preguntan por un casual por qué te tomaste ese tiempo o dejaste tu trabajo anterior, sólo hay una respuesta irrebatible: «Se me presentó una oportunidad de esas que aparecen una vez en la vida de [experiencia exótica que da envidia] y no pude rechazarla. Pensé que, como aún tengo por delante [20-40] años de vida productiva, ¿qué prisa había?».”
― Timothy Ferriss, La semana laboral de 4 horas

“Ser capaz de abandonar lo que no funciona es consustancial a ser un ganador.”
― Timothy Ferriss, La semana laboral de 4 horas

“Meetings should only be held to make decisions about a predefined situation, not to define the problem.”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

“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.”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Work Week: Escape the 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich

“Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. —STEVE JOBS,”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

“For all four years of school, I had a policy. If I received anything less than an A on the first paper or non-multiple-choice test in a given class, I would bring 2–3 hours of questions to the grader’s office hours and not leave until the other had answered them all or stopped out of exhaustion. This served two important purposes: 1. I learned exactly how the grader evaluated work, including his or her prejudices and pet peeves. 2. The grader would think long and hard about ever giving me less than an A. He or she would never consider giving me a bad grade without exceptional reasons for doing so, as he or she knew I’d come a’knocking for another three-hour visit.”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

“This is another one that took me a long time to learn. Starting something doesn’t automatically justify finishing it.”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

“An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Work Week: Escape the 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich

“Don’t call it a problem if you can avoid it.”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

“If you’re running around like a chicken with its head cut off and assign your VA to do that for you, it doesn’t improve the order of the universe.”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

“unless something is well-defined and important, no one should do it.”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4 Hour Workweek, Expanded And Updated: Expanded And Updated, With Over 100 New Pages Of Cutting Edge Content

“There is just less competition for bigger goals. Doing big things begins with asking for them properly.”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4 Hour Workweek, Expanded And Updated: Expanded And Updated, With Over 100 New Pages Of Cutting Edge Content

“As I have heard said, a person’s success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have. Resolve to do one thing every day that you fear.”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4 Hour Workweek, Expanded And Updated: Expanded And Updated, With Over 100 New Pages Of Cutting Edge Content

“Fíjate en lo que haces actualmente y pregúntate: «¿Qué pasaría si hiciera lo contrario que los que me rodean? ¿Qué voy a sacrificar si continúo así durante 5, 10 o 20 años más?».”
― Timothy Ferriss, La semana laboral de 4 horas

“The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble.”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

“Outside of science and law, all rules can be bent or broken, and it doesn’t require being unethical.”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Work Week: Escape the 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich

“Once you realize that you can turn off the noise without the world ending, you're liberated in a way that few people ever know”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

“finding a market before designing a product is smarter than the reverse.”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

“The vast majority of people will never find a job that can be an unending source of fulfillment, so that is not the goal here; to free time and automate income is.”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

“The goal is fun and profit.”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

“currency of the New Rich: time and mobility. This is an art and a science we will refer to as Lifestyle Design (LD).”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

“What does an igloo-dwelling millionaire do that a cubicle-dweller doesn’t? Follow an uncommon set of rules. How does a lifelong blue-chip employee escape to travel the world for a month without his boss even noticing? He uses technology to hide the fact. Gold is getting old. The New Rich (NR) are those who abandon the deferred-life plan and create luxury lifestyles in the present using the currency of the New Rich: time and mobility. This is an art and a science we will refer to as Lifestyle Design (LD).”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. —MARK TWAIN Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination. —OSCAR WILDE, Irish dramatist and novelist”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

“The objective is to create freedom of time and place and use both however you want.”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

“What’s the worst that could happen? I encourage you to remember this often-neglected question as you begin to see the infinite possibilities outside of your current comfort zone. This period of collective panic is your big chance to dabble.”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

“We create stress for ourselves because you feel like you have to do it. You have to. I don’t feel that anymore. —OPRAH WINFREY,”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Work Week: Escape the 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich

“Focus on great for a few things and good enough for the rest. Perfection is a good ideal and direction to have, but recognize it for what it is: an impossible destination.”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek