Timothy Ferriss quotes

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

Timothy Ferriss

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

It's amazing how someone's IQ seems to double as soon as you give them responsibility and indicate that you trust them.

Timothy Ferriss

To enjoy life, you don't need fancy nonsense, but you do need to control your time and realize that most things just aren't as serious as you make them out to be.

Timothy Ferriss

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.

Timothy Ferriss

Money is multiplied in practical value depending on the number of W's you control in your life: what you do, when you do it, where you do it, and with whom you do it.

Timothy Ferriss

People who avoid all criticism fail. It's destructive criticism we need to avoid, not criticism in all forms.

Timothy Ferriss

"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

Just as modern man consumes both too many calories and calories of no nutritional value, information workers eat data both in excess and from the wrong sources.

Timothy Ferriss

Alternating periods of activity and rest is necessary to survive, let alone thrive. Capacity, interest, and mental endurance all wax and wane. Plan accordingly.

Timothy Ferriss

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. (Timothy Ferriss)

Being busy is most often used as a guise for avoiding the few critically important but uncomfortable actions.

Timothy Ferriss

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.

Timothy Ferriss

Being busy is a form of laziness - lazy thinking and indiscriminate action.

Timothy Ferriss

Lacking an external focus, the mind turns inward on itself and creates problems to solve, even if the problems are undefined or unimportant. If you find a focus, an ambitious goal that seems impossible and forces you to grow, these doubts disappear.

Timothy Ferriss

In excess, most endeavors and possessions take on the characteristics of their opposite.

Timothy Ferriss

I have scary eyes. I look like the guy in 'American History X,' yes. I remember coming home from school and asking my mum if I could get an eye transplant, and of course she declined.

Timothy Ferriss

Doing less meaningless work, so that you can focus on things of greater personal importance, is NOT laziness. This is hard for most people to accept, because our culture [American] tends to reward personal sacrifice instead of personal productivity.

Timothy 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.

Timothy Ferriss

I value self-discipline, but creating systems that make it next to impossible to misbehave is more reliable than self-control.

Timothy Ferriss

I encourage active skepticism - when people are being skeptical because they're trying to identify the best course of action. They're trying to identify the next step for themselves or other people. (Timothy Ferriss)

The best entrepreneurs I've ever met are all good communicators. It's perhaps one of the very few unifying factors.

Timothy Ferriss

I think time management as a label encourages people to view each 24-hour period as a slot in which they should pack as much as possible.

Timothy Ferriss

Every time I find myself stressed out, it's because I do things primarily driven by growth.

Timothy Ferriss

The reason I was successful in launching my first book with bloggers is this: I assumed that I should spend as much time on a blogger with a million-person readership as I would pitching an editor of a publication with a million person subscription-base.

Timothy Ferriss

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Timothy Ferriss

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Occupation: American Author
Born: July 20, 1977
Quotes count: 123
Wikipedia: Timothy Ferriss

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