Quotes from Timothy Ferriss

I'm old-fashioned. Where I come from, people like to succeed. . . . When I was a founder, when I first started out, we didn't have the word 'pivot.' We didn't have a fancy word for it. We just called it a fuck-up.

En igualdad de condiciones, para incrementar tu felicidad, lo único que hay que hacer es desearle a cualquier otra persona elegida al azar que sea feliz.

Sometimes you need to allow life to save you from getting what you want." Brandon Stanton

risks weren't that scary once you took them.

Here are a few common time-consumers in small businesses with online presences. Submitting articles to drive traffic to site and build mailing lists Participating in or moderating discussion forums and message boards Managing affiliate programs Creating content for and publishing newsletters and blog postings Background research components of new marketing initiatives or analysis of current marketing results Don't expect miracles from a single

Christopher Carmichael, "You are 99 years old, you are on your deathbed, and you have a chance to come back to right now: what would you do?

3—When in doubt, starve it of oxygen.

To read Thucydides is to see our own world in microcosm. It's the study of how democracies destroy themselves by breaking down into warring factions, the Few versus the Many. Hoi polloi in Greek means "the many." Oligoi means "the few.

Lo que hay que tener (Anagrama, 2010), de Tom Wolfe

I find that being in a good mood for creative work

It's not giving up to put your current path on indefinite pause.

As soon as I stopped fixating on the destination—where I wanted to hit the ball—and instead focused on what was in front of me—the point of impact—everything began to work.

Diversity in counsel, unity in command." –Cyrus the Great Founder of the Achaemenid Empire, known as the "king of Persia

Remember—boredom is the enemy, not some abstract "failure.

The app Headspace is a fun way to start. Try and do it every day. But I suggest not doing it while you are walking . . . for now.

Learn to ask, "If this is the only thing I accomplish today, will I be satisfied with my day?

Oscar Wilde's advice, "The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it

I have come to learn that part of the business strategy is to solve the simplest, easiest, and most valuable problem. And actually, in fact, part of doing strategy is to solve the easiest problem, so part of the reason why you work on software and bits is that atoms [physical products] are actually very difficult.

Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life.

Peter Drucker and his book The Effective Executive, as well as Alain de Botton's (page 486) How Proust Can Change Your Life.

The blog post I point people to the most is called 'First, Ten,' and it is a simple theory of marketing that says: tell ten people, show ten people, share it with ten people; ten people who already trust you and already like you. If they don't tell anybody else, it's not that good and you should start over. If they do tell other people, you're on your way." TO

Are You Fooling Yourself with a Plan for Moderation?

A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander.

Which of these highest-value activities is the easiest for me to do?