Tim Ferriss
I'm very often described as a 'risk-taker' and 'extreme,' and there are a few examples of that, certainly in the physical experimentation.
I've had a very good stretch with startup investing, and I think it's very important to know when to hold your chips.
It isn't enough to think outside the box. Thinking is passive. Get used to acting outside the box.Collection: Inspirational
What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.Collection: Inspirational
If you don't have time, the truth is, you don't have priorities. Think harder; don't work harder.Collection: Hard Work
One can steal ideas, but no one can steal execution or passion.Collection: Inspirational
There are two components that are fundamental to enjoy life and feel good about yourself: continual learning and service.Collection: Live Life
Tomorrow becomes never. No matter how small the task, take the first step now!Collection: Inspirational
Lack of time is actually lack of priorities.Collection: Motivational
You can lose money and make it back, you can't do that with time.Collection: Loses
To do the impossible, you need to ignore the popular.Collection: Success
But you are the average of the five people you associate with most, so do not underestimate the effects of your pessimistic, unambitious, or disorganized friends. If someone isn't making you stronger, they're making you weaker.Collection: Average
Lacking an external focus, the mind turns inward on itself and creates problems to solve, even if the problems are undefined or unimportant. If you find a focus, an ambitious goal that seems impossible and forces you to grow, these doubts disappear.Collection: Goal
Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.Collection: Self Esteem
The best way to improve mental performance, is to improve physical performanceCollection: Way
Money doesn't change you; it reveals who you are when you no longer have to be nice.Collection: Nice
The fishing is best where the fewest go. There is just less competition for bigger goals.Collection: Fishing
The most important actions are never comfortable.Collection: Motivational
There is always more information than attentionCollection: Attention
Requiring a lot of time does not make a task important.Collection: Important
If you don't have time, you don't have priorities.Collection: Priorities
Being busy is a form of laziness - lazy thinking and indiscriminate action. Being busy is most often used as a guise for avoiding the few critically important but uncomfortable actions.Collection: Thinking
Focus on impact, not approval. If you believe you can change the world, which I hope you do, do what you believe is right and expect resistance and expect attackers. Keep calm and carry on!Collection: Believe
Luxury, to me, is not owning a lot of stuff. Luxury, to me, is feeling unrushed.Collection: Luxury
An entrepreneur isn't someone who owns a business, it's someone who makes things happen.Collection: Entrepreneur
Are you better off than you were one year ago, one month ago, or one week ago? If not, things will not improve by themselves.Collection: Years
The question you should be asking isn't, "What do I want?" or "What are my goals?" but "What would excite me?Collection: Inspirational
Luxury is feeling unrushed. It is designing a life that allows you to do what you want with high leverage, with many options, all while feeling unrushed.Collection: Luxury
Role models who push us to exceed our limits, physical training that removes our spare tires, and risks that expand our sphere of comfortable action are all examples of eustress—stress that is healthful and the stimulus for growth.Collection: Stress
Pacifists become militants. Freedom fighters become tyrants. Blessings become curses. Help becomes hindrance. More becomes less.Collection: Blessing
There are no statues erected to critics.Collection: Critics
Massive elimination is the most important step and the most neglected step for entrepreneurs.Collection: Entrepreneur
Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference. Being busy is a form of mental laziness-lazy thinking and indiscriminate action.Collection: Thinking
That's precisely the question everyone should be asking-why the hell not? - Why not you, why not now.Collection: Inspirational
To enjoy life, you don't need fancy nonsense, but you do need to control your time and realize that most things just aren't as serious as you make them out to be.Collection: Inspirational
Age doesn't matter. An open mind does.Collection: Learning
Think big and don't listen to people who tell you it can't be done. Life's too short to think small.Collection: Inspirational
Many a false step was made by standing still.Collection: Inspirational
Three ingredients of luxury lifestyle design are time, income, and mobility.Collection: Motivational
Simplicity requires ruthlessness.Collection: Simplicity
If only I had more money is the easiest way to postpone the intense self-examination and decision-making necessary to create a life of enjoyment - now and not later.Collection: Self
The way that you become world-class is... by asking good questions.Collection: Class
The key to having more time is doing less, and there are two paths to get there, both of which should be used together: (1) Define a short to-do list and (2) define a not-to-do list.Collection: Keys
If the challenge we face doesn't scare us, then it's probably not that important.Collection: Fear
It's amazing how someone's IQ seems to double as soon as you give them responsibility and indicate that you trust them.Collection: Responsibility
Personally, I now aim for one month of overseas relocation or high-intensity learning (tango, fighting, whatever) for every two months of work projects.Collection: Work
People will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.Collection: Inspirational
When you try to do something big its hard to fail completely.Collection: Success