Quotes from Tim Ferriss

If you optimize for money too early, you will be minimizing for learning, almost without exception.

As far as income goes, there are three currencies in the world; most people ignore two. The three currencies are time, income and mobility, in descending order of importance. Most people focus exclusively on income.

Exercise is overrated.

Learn the art of the pitch and of messaging.

If you're sitting in a monastery, where your schedule is set and you have very few uncontrolled variables, that's fantastic that you can do loving/kindness meditation, but that's not the world I live in.

I discourage passive skepticism, which is the armchair variety where people sit back and criticize without ever subjecting their theories or themselves to real field testing.

I definitely grew up with a lot of venom and distaste for city people.

Compile your to-do list for tomorrow no later than this evening.

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

For most people, life would be boring without meaningful work.

Just because something has been a lot of work or consumed a lot of time doesn't make it productive or worthwhile.

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.

When you're directed by social media, I think it's very easy to lose a sense of agency. And you can see it when you go to any subway station, you walk down any street in a city, you will see 70-80 percent of people staring into their phones as they walk or stand.

The best way to counter-attack a hater is to make it blatantly obvious that their attack has had no impact on you.

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

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

I might seem biased, but I use Evernote every day. It came to me through my readers, who I'd asked for software recommendations via Twitter and Facebook. For seemingly every function, the answer was 'Man, you have to use Evernote.'

Workaholics typically have a lot of achievement with very little appreciation of what they have, whether it's cars or friendships or otherwise. That is a shallow victory. Then you have people with a lot of appreciation and no achievement, which is fine, but it doesn't create a lot of good in the world.

Focus on being productive instead of busy.

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

Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.

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?

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

This is not my phrase, but if you're stuck in the past, then you're depressed. If you're stuck in the future, then you're anxious.