Timothy Ferriss Quotes

People really do think they have to choose between high stress and high reward jobs, and low stress and low reward jobs.

What are some of the choices you've made that made you who you are?

Being busy is a form of laziness - lazy thinking and indiscriminate action.

One of the bigger misconceptions of learning is that many skills take a lifetime to get world-class at, or 10,000 hours to become world-class at.

The worst that could happen wasn't crashing and burning, it was accepting terminal boredom as a tolerable status quo.

I think you'd love this puppy. Why don't you just take him home and see what you think? You can just bring him back if you change your mind.

But the truth is, you can't really earn trust over time with people without being somewhat vulnerable [first].

Someday is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you.

You're not responsible for the hand of cards you were dealt. You're responsible for maxing out what you were given.

I'm not a fan of idleness, except in small doses.

I will take as a given that, for most people, somewhere between six and seven billion of them, the perfect job is the one that takes the least time.

Fasting before chemotherapy is definitely something that should be implemented in our oncology wards,

The decent method you follow is better than the perfect method you quit.

The question you should be asking isn't, "What do I want?" or "What are my goals?" but "What would excite me?

we would always think: 'Okay, if we do X today, what does that result in tomorrow, a year from now, ten years from now?' The

Stay humble or get humbled.

The top 1% often succeed despite how they train, not because of it. Superior genetics, or a luxurious full-time schedule, make up for a lot.

Law 11: "No" simply means begin again at one level higher.

The Conquest of Happiness

Pareto's Law can be summarized as follows: 80% of the outputs
result from 20% of the inputs.

Love, be loved, and never stop learning -

What I don't like is snark for snark's sake. If you are going to make fun of me, at least be witty while doing it.

Fear itself is quite fear-inducing. Most intelligent people in the world dress it up as something else: optimistic denial.

As author P. J. O'Rourke puts it: Veal is a very young beef and, like a very young girlfriend, it's cute but boring and expensive.

I didn't even like white wine. Then I tasted it and bought a case. It was the first case of any wine I'd ever bought.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward people we personally dislike. - OSCAR WILDE

The best way to counter-attack a hater is to make it blatantly obvious that their attack has had no impact on you.

I overhear Bobby Flay say, "Take risks and you'll get the payoffs. Learn from your mistakes until you succeed. It's that simple." I

Work is an activity that is financially-driven or one that you'd like to do less of.

Lack of time is actually lack of priorities. Take

Miller, BJ: "'Don't believe everything you think.

Since all of them overestimated the competition, no one even showed up.

Many a false step was made by standing still.

Pricing low is shortsighted, because someone else is always willing to sacrifice more profit margin and drive you both bankrupt.

Poisonous people do not deserve your time. To think otherwise is masochistic.

One does not accumulate but eliminate. It is not daily increase but daily decrease. The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity. - BRUCE LEE

The golden years become lower-middle-class life revisited. That's a bittersweet ending.

You guarantee a good meal by picking the recipes well, not by following recipes well.

Hard feelings pass. Don't suffer fools or you'll become one.

You won't believe what you can accomplish by attempting the impossible with the courage to repeatedly fail better.

I now eat four Brazil nuts and one tablespoon of almond butter first thing upon waking.

Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger

I didn't survive, I prepared." Nelson Mandela's answer when Tony asked him, "Sir, how did you survive all those years in prison?

Refuse to accept partial completeness.

Relative income uses two variables: the dollar and time, usually hours.

Flavor is, counterintuitively, less than 10% taste and more than 90% smell.

Bad dog. Hit yourself with a newspaper and cut it out.

So I think, every day, it's something to reflect on and think about 'How do I become less competitive in order that I can become more successful?

We do not rise to the level of our expectations. We fall to the level of our training." - Archilochus

When you try to do something big its hard to fail completely.

Far from being a reason not to travel and seek adventure, children are perhaps the best reason of all to do both.

Once we get those muddy, maddening, confusing thoughts [nebulous worries, jitters, and preoccupations] on the page, we face our day with clearer eyes.

something like, "You're totally right. I never thought about that.

We are simultaneously gods and worms." - Abraham Maslow

You can enjoy stargazing just by going out and learning a couple constellations with your kids.

What would this look like if it were easy?

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

Even if you are predisposed to being overweight, you're not predestined to be fat.

When you have the best and tastiest ingredients, you can cook very simply and the food will be extraordinary because it tastes like what it is.

There were three reasons why we survived: We had no money, we had no technology, and we had no plan. Every dollar, we used very carefully.

it's nice to know that when you get started each day seems to matter less than learning how to get started consistently, however

In cooking - as in business and war - hope for the best but plan for the worst.

I really feel like knife skills - not just in the kitchen, but in life - are really critical.

Learn to slow down. Get lost intentionally. Observe how you judge both yourself and those around you.

For all their bitching about what's holding them back, most people have a lot of trouble coming up with the defined dreams they're being held from.

You are only as young as the last time you changed your mind.' - Timothy Leary.

you never want to solve a research problem with language. You

Success, however you define it, is achievable if you collect the right field-tested beliefs and habits.

Parkinson's Law dictates that a task will swell in (perceived) importance and complexity in relation to the time allotted for its completion. It

A person's success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have.

Sports just happen to be excellent for avoiding foreign-language stage fright and developing lasting friendships while still sounding like Tarzan.

The stars will never align

The options are limitless, but each path begins with the same first step: replacing assumptions.

Doing something unimportant well does not make it important.

The Power of Persuasion by Robert Levine. The

Case - a tolerable and comfortable existence doing something unfulfilling. The last is most common and most insidious.

I participate in a program called D.E.A.R. which stands for Drop Everything and Read, where a few times a month I come in and read to each class.

don't label a lot of things good/bad. [Instead, I ask] can I evolve from this? What do I want now?

The Standard Pace is for chumps.

Oh, that wasn't a failure. That was a key moment of my development that I needed to take, and I can trust my instinct. I really can.

People who avoid criticism will fail.

Throw it all up on the wall and see what sticks.

if we move beyond the education bubble that we're living in today, the future will be one in which people can speak about these things more clearly.

Being overwhelmed is often as unproductive as doing nothing, and is far more unpleasant. Being selective - doing less - is the path of the productive.

(1) Define a to-do list and (2) define a not-to-do list. In general terms, there are but two questions:

There is more freedom to be gained from practicing poverty than chasing wealth. Suffer a little regularly and you often cease to suffer.

I am a big believer that if you have a very clear vision of where you want to go, then the rest of it is much easier.

What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.

If something offends you, look inward. . . . That's a sign that there's something there.

As chef Mehdi Chellaoui says, "I use lemon like I use salt." Mario Batali would agree: if something is missing, it's probably acid.

There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do. - BILL WATTERSON,

Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to being a winner

May all of your creations have just the right flavor,

It is possible to become world-class, enter the top 5% of performers in the world, in almost any subject within 6-12 months, or even 6-12 weeks.

Time is wasted because there is so much time available.

Do not expect work to fill a void that non-work relationships and activities should.

Lazy: A Manifesto

You don't need more recipes. You need to learn to cook without them.

Out of clutter, find simplicity. - Albert Einstein

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