Tim Ferriss Quotes

Doing the unrealistic is easier than doing the realistic.

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

For all their bitching about what’s holding them back, most people have a lot of trouble coming up with the defined dreams they’re being held from.

The first thing I would do for anyone who's trying to lose body fat, for instance, would be to remove foods from the house that he or she would consume during lapses of self-control.

The fishing is best where the fewest go and the collective insecurity of the world makes it easy for people to hit home runs while everyone is aiming for base hits.

Companies that start by redesigning the economics of an industry often finish by redesigning the whole industry-and owning it.

There are a lot of things that can be learned from the darker corners of athletics. You have doctors who view bodybuilders as cavalier amateurs of science. And then you have the bodybuilders who view the doctors as too conservative to do anything interesting. So I've tried to become the middleman for putting some of those pieces together.

People really do think they have to choose between high stress and high reward jobs, and low stress and low reward jobs.

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

Happiness can be bought with a bottle of wine and has become ambiguous through overuse.

To do the impossible, you need to ignore the popular.

After decades of hauling telescopes around in the back of vans and going up to high altitude locations and so forth, I did finally build an observatory, here on Sonoma mountain.

Don’t follow a model that doesn't work. If the recipe sucks, it doesn't matter how good a cook you are.

Being called a huckster and a charlatan started several years ago, so that's something I'm accustomed to. In most cases, it doesn't bother me.

Uncertainty and the prospect of failure can be very scary noises in the shadows. Most people will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.

Most people can do absolutely awe-inspiring things. Sometimes they just need a little nudge.

Age doesn't matter. An open mind does.

Learn to be difficult when it counts. In school as in life, having a reputation for being assertive will help you receive preferential treatment without having to beg or fight for it every time.

I always point people to the article '1,000 True Fans' by Kevin Kelly. If you choose your thousand ideal customers or readers properly and find the single author blog that targets that audience, you never have to do any more marketing. You're done. That is a lesson that very few product developers and marketers have learned, and it's unfortunate.

One of the bigger misconceptions of learning is that many skills take a lifetime to get world-class at, or 10,000 hours to become world-class at.

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.

Becoming a member of the NR is not just about working smarter. It's about building a system to replace yourself.

Think big and don't listen to people who tell you it can't be done. Life's too short to think small.

Focus on being productive instead of busy.

Tomorrow becomes never. No matter how small the task, take the first step now!

Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to being a winner