If you don't have time, you don't have priorities.

Everyone is going to binge on a diet, for instance, so plan for it, schedule it, and contain the damage.

The way that you become world-class is... by asking good questions.

The truth is that since the first book, I have wanted to emulate Benjamin Franklin and put together a healthy, wealthy and wise trilogy and so healthy was 'The 4-Hour Body,' wealthy was 'The 4-Hour Workweek' and then wise is 'The 4-Hour Chef.'

I open each class with an explanation of the singular importance of being a "dealmaker." The manifesto of the dealmaker is simple: Reality is negotiable.

I'm not a fan of idleness, except in small doses.

Poisonous people do not deserve your time. To think otherwise is masochistic.