Tim Ferriss Quotes - Page 6

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

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.

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

Someday is a dis-ease that will take your dreams to the grave with you.

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.

If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is, too.

The universe doesn't conspire against you, but it doesn't go out of its way to line up the pins either. Conditions are never perfect.

There is a direct correlation between am increased sphere of comfort and getting what you want.

It's very easy to confuse confident motion with being productive - and they're not the same thing. Productive to me means measurable outcomes that apply to my most important to-dos that positively affect my life. That's it.

I work hard, but in spurts.

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

The least-crowded channel for meeting high profile bloggers is in person. Email is the most difficult, the most crowded... I'm a top 1,000 blogger, not a top 100 blogger, and I get hundreds of pitches by email every week. Most of them I don't even see because my assistant declines them.

By working only when you are most effective, life is both more productive and more enjoyable. It's the perfect example of having your cake and eating it, too.

Focus on being productive instead of busy.

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.

Avoid results-by volume approach, instead focus on few critically important but uncomfortable actions.

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

The blind quest for cash is a fool's errand.

There are certain things I will automate, but when it comes to quality control, I want to keep a very close eye.

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

$1,000,000 in the bank isn't the fantasy. The fantasy is the lifestyle of complete freedom it supposedly allows.

I'm prepared to do battle for a dream that is worth dreaming.

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 you see distraction externally, you end up creating an internally distracted state.

The manifesto of the dealmaker is simple: Reality is negotiable.