Quotes from Timothy Ferriss

No one owes you anything.

Trying to get everyone to like you is a sign of mediocrity. You'll avoid the tough decisions, and you'll avoid confronting the people who need to be confronted."—Colin Powell

The struggle ends when the gratitude begins.

What gets measured gets managed. —PETER DRUCKER, management theorist, author

In any situation in life, you only have three options. 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.

If you can't see yourself working with someone for life, don't work with them for a day.

you can use positive constraints to increase perceived free will and results. Freeform days might seem idyllic, but they are paralyzing due to continual paradox of choice (e.g., "What should I do now?") and decision fatigue (e.g., "What should I have for breakfast?"). In

I've realized that instead of following the trends, you want to identify the trends but not follow them. It's good to recognize trends, but if you follow them, you get sucked into them, and then you also fall with the trend.

People think focus means saying yes to the thing you've got to focus on. But that's not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully. I'm actually as proud of the things we haven't done as the things I have done. Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things." –Steve Jobs

If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in the dark with a mosquito."—Betty Reese

People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world. —CALVIN, from Calvin and Hobbes

More than 80% of the interviewees have some form of daily mindfulness or meditation practice

The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom. —VIKTOR FRANKL, Auschwitz survivor and founder of Logotherapy, Man's Search for Meaning

People say that what we are seeking is a meaning for life. I don't think this is what we're really seeking. I think what we're seeking is an experience of being alive. —JOSEPH CAMPBELL, The Power of Myth

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." —J. Krishnamurti

Self-sufficiency is another word for poverty." Matt Ridley TW: @

The opposite of play isn't work. It's depression.

The very word 'success' has become contaminated by our ideas of someone extraordinary, very rich, etc., and that's really unhelpful…. Ultimately, to be properly successful is to be at peace as well.

If you don't believe in an afterlife, then you [should realize] that this is such a short and precious life, it is really important that you don't spend it being unhappy. There is no excuse for spending most of your life in misery. You've only got 70 years out of the 50 billion or however long the universe is going to be around.

Our point is, if you try to approach every problem with your moral compass, first and foremost, you're going to make a lot of mistakes. You're going to exclude a lot of possible good solutions. You're going to assume you know a lot of things, when in fact you don't, and you're not going to be a good partner in reaching a solution with other people who don't happen to see the world the way you do.

Remember: There is a direct correlation between an increased sphere of comfort and getting what you want.

Show up in every moment like you're meant to be there, because your energy precedes anything you could possibly say." Marie Forleo

Adults are always asking kids what they want to be when they grow up because they are looking for ideas. —PAULA POUNDSTONE

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid."—Epictetus