Tim Ferriss Quotes

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 strengths or incremental improvement fixing weaknesses that will, at best, become mediocre. Focus on better use of your best weapons instead of constant repair.

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

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

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.

I'd rather write books for 10,000 people who are genuinely changed by them than crank out short-form videos for 10 million people who forget about them within days or minutes.

Parkinson’s Law dictates that a task will swell in (perceived) importance and complexity in relation to the time allotted for its completion. It

If I want a better-than-average career, I can’t simply ‘go with the flow’ and get it. Most people do just that: they wish for an outcome but make no intention-driven actions toward that outcome. If they would just do something most people would find that they get some version of the outcome they’re looking for. That’s been my secret. Stop wishing and start doing.

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 wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.” — Lin Yutang

80% of the consequences flow from 20% of the causes

When You Complain, Nobody Wants to Help You

Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action. — BENJAMIN DISRAELI, former British Prime Minister

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.

What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for a worthwhile goal, a freely chosen task. — VIKTOR E. FRANKL, Holocaust survivor; author of Man’s Search for Meaning

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you’re a man, you take it. — MALCOLM X, Malcolm X Speaks