"If you spend your time, worth $20-25 per hour, doing something that someone else will do for $10 per hour, it's simply a poor use of resources."
Read quote
3 likes
Quote collection
Tim Ferriss quotes (page 11 of 13)
245 quotes — follow a thought to its full quote page.
"$1,000,000 in the bank isn't the fantasy. The fantasy is the lifestyle of complete freedom it supposedly allows."
Read quote
3 likes
"Food became for me a way of becoming self-sufficient with my hands, to regain manual literacy, which I think has been lost on our generation and certainly younger generations. Very few people can actually make things with their hands and do things with their hands."
Read quote
3 likes
"The downstream effects are unknown. Do your best and hope for the best. If you're improving the world-however you define that-consider your job well done."
Read quote
3 likes
"Compile your to-do list for tomorrow no later than this evening."
Read quote
3 likes
"I'm not a fan of idleness, except in small doses."
Read quote
3 likes
"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!"
Read quote
3 likes
"The commonsense rules of the "real world" are a fragile collection of socially reinforced illusions."
Read quote
3 likes
"Don’t follow a model that doesn't work. If the recipe sucks, it doesn't matter how good a cook you are."
Read quote
3 likes
"Rather than spend my life on data entry and typing, I also take photos on my iPhone of business cards, wine labels, menus, or anything I want to have searchable on-the-run."
Read quote
3 likes
"Language learning deserves special mention. It is, bar none, the best thing you can do to hone clear thinking."
Read quote
3 likes
"Fear is your friend. It is an indicator. Sometimes it shows you what you shouldn't do, more often than not it shows you what you should do."
Read quote
3 likes
"I have scary eyes. I look like the guy in 'American History X,' yes. I remember coming home from school and asking my mum if I could get an eye transplant, and of course she declined."
Read quote
3 likes
"I'm not averse to making a lot of money. But where does that end? I hang out with people with hundreds of millions of dollars. Is that the standard by which I should measure myself? Where does that take you if you're in my business? I think it takes you to pretty dark, corrupt places."
Read quote
3 likes
"The bottom line is that you only have the rights you fight for."
Read quote
3 likes
"A recession is very bad for publicly traded companies, but it's the best time for startups. When you have massive layoffs, there's more competition for available jobs, which means that an entrepreneur can hire freelancers at a lower cost."
Read quote
3 likes
"Be bold and don't worry about what people think. They don't do it that often anyway."
Read quote
3 likes
"Doing less is not being lazy. Don't give in to a culture that values personal sacrifice over personal productivity."
Read quote
3 likes
"I open each class with an explanation of the singular importance of being a "dealmaker." The manifesto of the dealmaker is simple: Reality is negotiable."
Read quote
3 likes
"Perfection is an impossible destination"
Read quote
3 likes