Quotes from Timothy Ferriss

If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success." —James Cameron "If you find yourself in a fair fight, you didn't plan your mission properly." —Colonel David Hackworth "Not my circus. Not my monkeys." —Polish proverb

Our fears are always more numerous than our dangers."—Seneca the Younger

Any useful statement about the future should at first seem ridiculous' by Jim Dator. Also, 'When it comes to the future, it's far more important to be imaginative than to be right' by Alvin Toffler. Both are famous futurists. These quotes remind me that world-changing ideas will seem absurd to most people, and that the most useful work I can be doing is to push the envelope of what is considered possible.

I used to resent obstacles along the path, thinking, 'If only that hadn't happened life would be so good.' Then I suddenly realized, life is the obstacles. There is no underlying path." Janna Levin TW/IG: @jannalevin

most cold calls didn't get to the intended person for one reason: gatekeepers. If I simply made all my calls from 8:00–8:30 A.M. and 6:00–6:30 P.M., for a total of one hour, I was able to avoid secretaries and book more than twice as many meetings

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. Unreasonable and unrealistic goals are easier to achieve for yet another reason.

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

Stop wishing and start doing.

Herbs? Herbs are from the leaves and stems of plants. Spices, on the other hand, are from the root, bark, and seeds.

But I will say this: the more clear I am about what my goals are, the more easily I can say no.

Here's a statistician joke for your next hot date: Person A: What happens when Bill Gates walks into a bar of 55 people? Person B: I don't know. What? Person A: The "average" net worth jumps to more than a billion dollars!

Think of them as insurance against the weaknesses of human nature—your weaknesses, my weaknesses, our weaknesses: 1. Make it conscious. 2. Make it a game. 3. Make it competitive. 4. Make it small and temporary.

everything around you that you call 'life' was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And

Lifestyle Design is thus not interested in creating an excess of idle time, which is poisonous, but the positive use of free time, defined simply as doing what you want as opposed to what you feel obligated to do.

These individuals have riches just as we say that we 'have a fever,' when really the fever has us." –Seneca

Not Dead, Can't Quit.

To find the right things, we'll need to go to the garden.

I'm not the strongest. I'm not the fastest. But I'm really good at suffering.

Getting fired, despite sometimes coming as a surprise and leaving you scrambling to recover, is often a godsend. Most people aren't lucky enough to get fired and die a slow spiritual death over 30-40 years of tolerating the mediocre.

Never go to sleep without a request to your subconscious."—Thomas Edison

use fat, not water, to counter hotness. Capsaicin is fat-soluble.

In the world of ideas, to name something is to own it. If you can name an issue, you can own the issue." —Thomas L. Friedman

So I think, every day, it's something to reflect on and think about 'How do I become less competitive in order that I can become more successful?

The best defense is a good offense. —DAN GABLE, Olympic gold medalist in wrestling