black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

The most important actions are never comfortable.

Tim Ferriss

Creating demand is hard. Filling demand is easier. Don’t create a product, then seek someone to sell it to. Find a market – define your customers – then find or develop a product for them.
TIM FERRISS

Creation Customer Demand Development Easy Production Yourself
Being selective-doing less-is the path of the productive. Focus on the important few and ignore the rest.
TIM FERRISS

Ignorance Important Path Production Selection
Think big and don’t listen to people who tell you it can’t be done. Life’s too short to think small.
TIM FERRISS

Big Life Listening People Short Small Thinking
The universe doesn’t conspire against you, but it doesn’t go out of its way to line up the pins either. Conditions are never perfect.
TIM FERRISS

Condition Perfection Universe Way Yourself
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.
TIM FERRISS

Comfortable Growth Health Limitation Modeling Risk Role
The fishing is best where the fewest go. There is just less competition for bigger goals.
TIM FERRISS

Best Big Competition Goal Inspirational Motivational
Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference.
TIM FERRISS

Difference Remember Slow
Learn to be difficult when it counts.
TIM FERRISS

Count Difficult Learning
Slowing down doesn’t mean accomplishing less; it means cutting out counterproductive distractions and the perception of being rushed.
TIM FERRISS

Accomplishment Distraction Perception Slow
Pacifists become militants. Freedom fighters become tyrants. Blessings become curses. Help becomes hindrance. More becomes less.
TIM FERRISS

Blessing Curse Fight Freedom Help Military Minimalism
It isn’t enough to think outside the box. Thinking is passive. Get used to acting outside the box.
TIM FERRISS

Box Enough Passive Thinking
One can steal ideas, but no one can steal execution or passion.
TIM FERRISS

Execution Ideas Passion Steal
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.
TIM FERRISS

Action Avoid Busy Comfortable Criticism Discrimination Form Lazy Thinking
When you try to do something big its hard to fail completely.
TIM FERRISS

Big Failure Inspirational Motivational Try Yourself
I’ll repeat something you might consider tattooing on your forehead: What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.
TIM FERRISS

Design Fear Head Inspirational Motivational Repeat Tattoo Yourself
Lack of time is actually lack of priorities.
TIM FERRISS

Priority Time

The most important actions are never comfortable.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

The most important actions are never comfortable.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Tim Ferriss Quotes