Quotes from Timothy Ferriss

When I wake up in the morning, I'm thinking to myself: What can I do to be ready for that moment, which is coming? That propels me out of bed.

In the end, winning is sleeping better." —Jodie Foster

By using money as the scapegoat and work as our all-consuming routine, we are able to conveniently disallow ourselves to do otherwise: 'John, I'd love to talk about the gaping void I feel in my life, the hopelessness that hits me like a punch in the eye every time I start my computer in the morning, but I have so much work to do! I've got at least three hours of unimportant email to reply to before calling prospects who said 'no' yesterday. Gotta run!

The end product of the shorter deadline is almost inevitably of equal or higher quality due to greater focus.

You're not responsible for the hand of cards you were dealt. You're responsible for maxing out what you were given.

It is possible to become world-class, enter the top 5% of performers in the world, in almost any subject within 6-12 months, or even 6-12 weeks.

Life punishes the vague wish and rewards the specific ask.

Pure hell forces action, but anything less can be endured with enough clever rationalization.

It is far more lucrative and fun to leverage your strengths instead of attempting to fix all the chinks in your armor.

Sports just happen to be excellent for avoiding foreign-language stage fright and developing lasting friendships while still sounding like Tarzan.

You always have three options. You can change it, you can accept it, or you can leave it. What is not a good option is to sit around wishing you would change it but not changing it, wishing you would leave it but not leaving it, and not accepting it. It's that struggle, that aversion, that is responsible for most of our misery. The phrase that I probably use the most to myself in my head is just one word: accept.

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

One does not accumulate but eliminate. It is not daily increase but daily decrease. The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity. —BRUCE LEE

The first ten minutes of sorting through clothing was like choosing which child of mine should live or die.

What problem do you face every day that nobody has solved yet?" or "What is a great company no one has started?" I will

The decent method you follow is better than the perfect method you quit.

Age doesn't matter: an open mind does.

people, even good people, will unknowingly abuse your time to the extent that you let them. Set good rules for all involved to minimize back-and-forth and meaningless communication.

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

Fighting emotions is like flailing in quicksand—it only makes things worse. Sometimes, the most proactive "defense" is a mental nod and wink.

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

The fishing is best where the fewest go,

There are two synergistic approaches for increasing productivity that are inversions of each other: 1. Limit tasks to the important to shorten work time (80/20). 2. Shorten work time to limit tasks to the important (Parkinson's Law). The best solution is to use both together: Identify the few critical tasks that contribute most to income and schedule them with very short and clear deadlines.

For the employee, the goal is to have full access to necessary information and as much independent decision-making ability as possible. For the entrepreneur, the goal is to grant as much information and independent decision-making ability to employees or contractors as possible.