Quotes from Timothy Ferriss

Álbum para «activarse»: «Cold Day Memory», de Sevendust.

si no haces algo bien, no lo hagas a menos que estés dispuesto a dedicar tiempo a mejorarlo.

suicide.org for a list of international hotlines.

Manuka honey bandages. Amelia has scars all over her shoulders and back from barbed-wire wounds.

Hazte a la idea de que decir que no a menudo exige cambiar popularidad por respeto.

Cuál es el peor consejo que ves u oyes dar en tu entorno?

he is the author of Anything You Want, a collection of short life lessons that I've read at least a dozen times.

Back to Tony, "cap the downside" also applies to thinking long-term about fees and middlemen: "If three of my friends [and I] all put aside the same amount of money, and we all get a 7% return, but my buddy's getting fees of 3%, my other buddy's 2%, and I'm 1%, and all three of us put $1 million in or $100,000 . . . the person with 3% of fees ends up with 65% less money [in the long-term]. . . .

What advice would you give to a smart, driven college student about to enter the "real world"? Most of the game is about persistence. It is the most important trait. Sure, when you get an opportunity, you have to perform and you have to exceed beyond all expectations, but getting that chance is the hardest part. So keep the vision clear in your head and every day refuse all obstacles to get to the goal.

You can be a juicy ripe peach and there'll still be someone who doesn't like peaches.

you should have, at most, two primary goals or tasks per day. Do them separately from start to finish without distraction.

Si no tienes nada que esconder, no debes preocuparte por tu privacidad,

Being busy is most often used as a guise for avoiding the few critically important but uncomfortable actions. The options are almost limitless for creating "busyness": You could call a few hundred unqualified sales leads, reorganize your Outlook contacts, walk across the office to request documents you don't really need, or fuss with your BlackBerry for a few hours when you should be prioritizing.

Time without attention is worthless, so value attention over time.

Scott me ayudó a reorientar mi atención hacia los sistemas, por usar su propio lenguaje, en lugar de concentrarme en las metas.

La magia es que poca gente sabe dibujar bien y escribir chistes.

Sharpening your logical and practical mental toolbox is not being an atheist or unspiritual.

Too often, aspiring artists put pressure on themselves to make their creative work their only source of income. In my experience, it's a road to misery. If art is your sole source of income, then there's unrelenting pressure on that art, and mercenary pressure is the enemy of the creative elves inside you trying to get the work done.

We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace."–Chuck Palahniuk Famed American author, best known for Fight Club

I promise, if you just tell the truth and get your heart broken as a comedian, you will have a house.

The biggest mistake you can make is to accept the norms of your time.

What I'm finding is that microdoses of LSD or mushrooms may be very helpful for depression because they make you feel better enough that you do something about what's wrong with your life. We've made [depression] an illness. It may be the body's way of saying, 'You better deal with something, because it's making you really sad.

It's impossible to be angry and grateful simultaneously. When you're grateful, there is no fear. You can't be fearful and grateful simultaneously.

Others include "Be expensive" (see Marc Andreessen, page 170), "Expect disaster" (see Tony Robbins, page 210), and "Own as little as possible" (see Jason Nemer, page 46, and Kevin Kelly, page 470).