Tim Ferriss Quotes

Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference.

But you are the average of the five people you associate with most, so do not underestimate the effects of your pessimistic, unambitious, or disorganized friends. If someone isn't making you stronger, they're making you weaker.

An entrepreneur isn't someone who owns a business, it's someone who makes things happen.

I really feel like knife skills - not just in the kitchen, but in life - are really critical.

If you take a strong stance and have a clear opinion or statement on any subject online, you're going to polarize people. And without that polarity, there's no discussion. Discussion is what I want, which means that I'm fine with the consequences.

The commonsense rules of the "real world" are a fragile collection of socially reinforced illusions.

In a digital world, there are numerous technologies that we are attached to that create infinite interruption.

Get good at being a troublemaker and saying sorry when you really screw up

I started using Twitter about year after its very early adoption and ended up investing in it around that same time. I'm involved with the Tech scene and companies ranging from Facebook, Stumbleupon and Twitter.

If someone's criticism is completely unfounded on data, then I don't want to hear it. It doesn't hold up to scrutiny.

I'll repeat something you might consider tattooing on your forehead: What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.

It's not enough to have the right answers. You have to have the right questions.

What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.

I work hard, but in spurts.

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.

Perfection is an impossible destination

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

Pacifists become militants. Freedom fighters become tyrants. Blessings become curses. Help becomes hindrance. More becomes less.

The problem with New Year's resolutions - and resolutions to 'get in better shape' in general, which are very amorphous - is that people try to adopt too many behavioral changes at once. It doesn't work. I don't care if you're a world-class CEO - you'll quit.

Are you better off than you were one year ago, one month ago, or one week ago? If not, things will not improve by themselves.

Most people are fast to stop you before you get started but hesitate to get in the way if you're moving.

Slowing down doesn't mean accomplishing less; it means cutting out counterproductive distractions and the perception of being rushed.

Work is an activity that is financially-driven or one that you'd like to do less of.

Simplicity requires ruthlessness.

If you spend your time, worth $20-25 per hour, doing something that someone else will do for $10 per hour, it's simply a poor use of resources.

If everyone is defining a problem or solving it one way and the results are subpar, this is the time to ask, What if I did the opposite? Don't follow a model that doesn't work. If the recipe sucks, it doesn't matter how good a cook you are.

That's precisely the question everyone should be asking-why the hell not? - Why not you, why not now.

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

Role models who push us to exceed our limits, physical training that removes our spare tires, and risks that expand our sphere of comfortable action are all examples of eustress—stress that is healthful and the stimulus for growth.

Sometimes you need to go on a low-information diet.

Most people are good at a handful of things and utterly miserable at most.

If it's important to you and you want to do it 'eventually', just do it and correct course along the way.

When you elevate the heels more so than you elevate the sole of the foot, you trigger a cascade of compensations in the knees and hips that cause tight hip flexors, and then those hip flexors cause lower-back pain.

World barista champions use the AeroPress to make coffee on the folding tray tables of airplanes.

Converting your own passions into a job is the fastest method for eliminating any passion you once had.

Which 20% of sources are causing 80% of my problems and unhappiness? Which 20% of sources are resulting in 80% of my desired outcomes and happiness?

It is far more lucrative and fun to leverage your strengths instead of attempting to fix all the chinks in your armor. The choice is between multiplication of results using strenths or incremental improvement fixing weaknesses that will, at best, become mediocre. Focus on better use of your best weapons instead of constant repair.

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

Personal branding is about managing your name - even if you don't own a business - in a world of misinformation, disinformation, and semi-permanent Google records. Going on a date? Chances are that your "blind" date has Googled your name. Going to a job interview? Ditto.

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.

Many a false step was made by standing still.

People don't want to be millionaires - they want to experience what they believe only millions can buy.

You can enjoy stargazing just by going out and learning a couple constellations with your kids.

Nothing can match the wonderment that comes from staring up into the star-filled canopy above and realizing that you are a part of that creation.

A friend of mine, Derek Simmons, who's been on the podcast, said, "If more information were the answer, we'd all be billionaires with perfect dads." It comes down to motivation and incentives. If it isn't a punishment or a reward, then it's just talk.

Food became for me a way of becoming self-sufficient with my hands, to regain manual literacy, which I think has been lost on our generation and certainly younger generations. Very few people can actually make things with their hands and do things with their hands.

If you don't have time, the truth is, you don't have priorities. Think harder; don't work harder.

To have an uncommon lifestyle, you need to develop the uncommon habit of making decisions, both for yourself and for others.