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 FERRISSSlow down and remember this: Most things make no difference. Being busy is a form of mental laziness-lazy thinking and indiscriminate action.
More Tim Ferriss Quotes
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You can lose money and make it back, you can’t do that with time.
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What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.
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It’s not enough to have the right answers. You have to have the right questions.
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What you do is infinitely more important than how you do it.
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Money doesn’t change you; it reveals who you are when you no longer have to be nice.
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I’ll repeat something you might consider tattooing on your forehead: What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.
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I have plenty of money to do what I want to do, and I have the relationships.
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Most people can do absolutely awe-inspiring things. Sometimes they just need a little nudge.
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Learn to be difficult when it counts. In school as in life, having a reputation for being assertive will help you receive preferential treatment without having to beg or fight for it every time.
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The most important actions are never comfortable.
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If you don’t have time, the truth is, you don’t have priorities. Think harder; don’t work harder.
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Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference.
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Age doesn’t matter. An open mind does.
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People will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.
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Short, sweet, and to the point. Clear writing, and therefore clear commands, comes from clear thinking. Think simple.
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A person’s success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have.
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Being selective-doing less-is the path of the productive. Focus on the important few and ignore the rest.
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Slowing down doesn’t mean accomplishing less; it means cutting out counterproductive distractions and the perception of being rushed.
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If it’s important to you and you want to do it ‘eventually’, just do it and correct course along the way.
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Uncertainty and the prospect of failure can be very scary noises in the shadows. Most people will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.
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Dreamlining is so named because it applies timelines to what most would consider dreams.
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The goal is not to simply eliminate the bad, which does nothing more than leave you with a vacuum, but to pursue and experience the best in the world.
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People are fond of using the its not what you know, its who you know adage as an excuse for inaction, as if all successful people are born with powerful friends. Nonsense.
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Poisonous people do not deserve your time. To think otherwise is masochistic.
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One can steal ideas, but no one can steal execution or passion.
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If someone’s criticism is completely unfounded on data, then I don’t want to hear it. It doesn’t hold up to scrutiny.
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