Tim Ferriss
Excitement is the more practical synonym for happiness, and it is precisely what you should strive to chase. It is the cure-all.Collection: Inspirational
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.Collection: Simple
Doing less is not being lazy. Don't give in to a culture that values personal sacrifice over personal productivity.Collection: Sacrifice
Money is multiplied in practical value depending on the number of W's you control in your life: what you do, when you do it, where you do it, and with whom you do it.Collection: Freedom
What do you want?' is too imprecise to produce a meaningful and actionable answer.Collection: Meaningful
The bottom line is that you only have the rights you fight for.Collection: Inspirational
Personal branding is about managing your name - even if you don't own a business - in a world of misinformation, disinformation, and semi-permanent Google records. Going on a date? Chances are that your "blind" date has Googled your name. Going to a job interview? Ditto.Collection: Jobs
I do my best writing between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m.. Almost every friend I have who is a consistently productive writer, does their best writing between 10 p.m. and 8 a.m. My quota is two crappy pages per day. I keep it really low so I'm not so intimidated that I never get started. I will do the gathering of interviews and research throughout the day. I'll get all my notes and materials together and then I'll do the synthesis between 10 p.m. to bed, which is usually 4 or 5 a.m.Collection: Writing
It's lonely at the top. Ninety-nine percent of people in the world are convinced they are incapable of achieving great things, so they aim for the mediocre. The level of competition is thus fiercest for "realistic" goals, paradoxically making them the most time-consuming and energy consuming. It is easier to raise $10,000,000 than it is $1,000,000. It is easier to pick up the one perfect 10 in the bar than the five 8s.Collection: Lonely
The only rules and limits are those we set for ourselvesCollection: Limits
There is a direct correlation between am increased sphere of comfort and getting what you want.Collection: Work
In excess, most endeavors and possessions take on the characteristics of their opposite.Collection: Opposites
Excitement is the more practical synonym for happiness, and it is precisely what you should strive to chase. It is the cure-all. When people suggest you follow your "passion" or your "bliss," I propose that they are, in fact, referring to the same singular concept: excitement. This brings us full circle. The question you should be asking isn't, "What do I want?" or "What are my goals?" but "What would excite me?"Collection: Live Life
By working only when you are most effective, life is both more productive and more enjoyable. It's the perfect example of having your cake and eating it, too.Collection: Inspirational
Focus on being productive instead of busy.Collection: Productive Work
Avoid results-by volume approach, instead focus on few critically important but uncomfortable actions.Collection: Focus
Doing something unimportant well does not make it important.Collection: Important
Most people can do absolutely awe-inspiring things. Sometimes they just need a little nudge.Collection: Motivational
The blind quest for cash is a fool's errand.Collection: Money
It's not enough to have the right answers. You have to have the right questions.Collection: Answers
$1,000,000 in the bank isn't the fantasy. The fantasy is the lifestyle of complete freedom it supposedly allows.Collection: Inspirational
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.Collection: Inspirational
I'm prepared to do battle for a dream that is worth dreaming.Collection: Dream
People frequently fail when they try to do everything at once. They approach a massive project and quickly get discouraged. Taking small, but high-value steps takes less time, and you learn more in the long run.Collection: Running
The manifesto of the dealmaker is simple: Reality is negotiable.Collection: Business
Unbeknownst to most fun-loving bipeds, not all stress is bad. Indeed, the New Rich don't aim to eliminate all stress. Not in the least.Collection: Fun
Language learning deserves special mention. It is, bar none, the best thing you can do to hone clear thinking.Collection: Thinking
Seemingly unrelated [things] that are in fact really related, that's the stuff I like to talk about. Like dancing, language learning, swimming, three-pointers.Collection: Swimming
Perfection is an impossible destinationCollection: Perfection
Companies that start by redesigning the economics of an industry often finish by redesigning the whole industry-and owning it.Collection: Economics
Just because something has been a lot of work or consumed a lot of time doesn't make it productive or worthwhile.Collection: Worthwhile
The golden years become lower-middle-class life revisited. That's a bittersweet ending.Collection: Inspirational
Remember—boredom is the enemy, not some abstract "failure.Collection: Inspirational
It is far more lucrative and fun to leverage your strengths instead of attempting to fix all the chinks in your armor. The choice is between multiplication of results using strenths or incremental improvement fixing weaknesses that will, at best, become mediocre. Focus on better use of your best weapons instead of constant repair.Collection: Motivational
The book is first and foremost something I made for myself.Collection: Book
There is an infinite selection of things that I could test in life, so I generally will look for a critical mass of word that comes back to me. At this point I have hundreds of friends who are the best at what they do, arguably number one in the country or in the world. I will oftentimes just kind of throw a volley out to people, ask them what they're obsessing on or what they find interesting that's on the fringe. If the same answer comes back a few times, I'm like, "Okay."Collection: Country
The brain is where most people really screw up.Collection: People
Doing less is not being lazy. Don’t give in to a culture that values personal sacrifice over personal productivity.Collection: Giving
If the challenge we face doesn’t scare us, then it’s probably not that important.Collection: Fear
If you don’t have time, the truth is, you don’t have priorities. Think harder; don’t work harder.Collection: Hard Work
It isn’t enough to think outside the box. Thinking is passive. Get used to acting outside the box.Collection: Thinking
An entrepreneur isn’t someone who owns a business, it’s someone who makes things happen.Collection: Inspirational Entrepreneurship
Think big and don’t listen to people who tell you it can’t be done. Life’s too short to think small.Collection: Life Is Short
A person’s success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have.Collection: Numbers
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: People
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.Collection: Fear
Ninety-nine percent of people believe they can’t do great things, so they aim for mediocrity.Collection: Believe
Be bold and don’t worry about what people think. They don’t do it that often anyway.Collection: Worry
Doing something unimportant well does not make it important,Collection: Important