The 4-Hour Workweek Quotes

“Someday" is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you.”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

“What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do. 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. I”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Work Week: Escape the 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich

“SLOW DANCE Have you ever watched kids On a merry-go-round? Or listened to the rain Slapping on the ground? Ever followed a butterfly’s erratic flight? Or gazed at the sun into the fading night? You better slow down. Don’t dance so fast. Time is short. The music won’t last. Do you run through each day On the fly? When you ask: How are you? Do you hear the reply? When the day is done, do you lie in your bed With the next hundred chores Running through your head? You’d better slow down. Don’t dance so fast. Time is short. The music won’t last. Ever told your child, We’ll do it tomorrow? And in your haste, Not see his sorrow? Ever lost touch, Let a good friendship die Cause you never had time To call and say, “Hi”? You’d better slow down. Don’t dance so fast. Time is short. The music won’t last. When you run so fast to get somewhere You miss half the fun of getting there. When you worry and hurry through your day, It is like an unopened gift thrown away. Life is not a race. Do take it slower. Hear the music Before the song is over. 85.”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Work Week: Escape the 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich

“love, be loved, and never stop learning—”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

“What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do. 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. I got into this habit by attempting to contact celebrities and famous businesspeople for advice.”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

“I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.      —WOODROW WILSON”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

“just-in-time” information instead of “just-in-case” information.”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

“Being busy is a form of laziness—lazy thinking and indiscriminate action. 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.”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

“Usually, what we most fear doing is what we most need to do. That phone call, that conversation, whatever the action might be—it is fear of unknown outcomes that prevents us from doing what we need to do. Define the worst case, accept it, and do it. I’ll repeat something you might consider tattooing on your forehead: What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do. 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.”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

“on a scale of 1–10, 1 being nothing and 10 being permanently life-changing, my so-called worst-case scenario might have a temporary impact of 3 or 4.”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

“Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid. —HEINRICH HEINE,”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

“Named must your fear be before banish it you can. —YODA, from Star Wars:”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Work Week: Escape the 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich

“The question you should be asking isn’t, “What do I want?” or “What are my goals?” but “What would excite me?”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

“Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece.      —RALPH CHARELL”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

“How has being “realistic” or “responsible” kept you from the life you want? 2. How has doing what you “should” resulted in subpar experiences or regret for not having done something else? 3. Look at what you’re currently doing and ask yourself, “What would happen if I did the opposite of”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

“There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do. —BILL WATTERSON,”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Work Week: Escape the 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich

“Work wherever and whenever you want, but get your work done.”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

“The concept of lifestyle design as a replacement for multi-staged career planning is sound.”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

“Realistic goals, goals restricted to the average ambition level, are uninspiring and will only fuel you through the first or second problem, at which point you throw in the towel. If the potential payoff is mediocre or average, so is your effort.”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

“Related: Money doesn’t change you; it reveals who you are when you no longer have to be nice”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

“Lifestyle Design is thus not interested in creating an excess of idle time, which is poisonous, but the positive use of free time, defined simply as doing what you want as opposed to what you feel obligated to do.”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

“If only I had more money” is the easiest way to postpone the intense self-examination and decision-making necessary to create a life of enjoyment—now and not later.”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

“Hard feelings pass. Don’t suffer fools or you’ll become one.”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

“People are poor judges of importance and inflate minutiae to fill time and feel important.”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

“To find the right things, we’ll need to go to the garden.”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

“If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is, too. Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think. Unreasonable and unrealistic goals are easier to achieve for yet another reason.”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

“If you have a strong informed opinion, don’t keep it to yourself. Try to help people and make the world a better place. If you strive to do anything remotely interesting, just expect a small percentage of the population to always find a way to take it personally. F*ck ’em. There are no statues erected to critics.”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

“most cold calls didn’t get to the intended person for one reason: gatekeepers. If I simply made all my calls from 8:00–8:30 A.M. and 6:00–6:30 P.M., for a total of one hour, I was able to avoid secretaries and book more than twice as many meetings”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Work Week: Escape the 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich

“The commonsense rules of the “real world” are a fragile collection of socially reinforced illusions.”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek