Tim Ferriss Quotes

One can steal ideas, but no one can steal execution or passion.
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Execution Ideas Passion Steal
Reality is negotiable.
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Deep Life One Liner Reality
If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is, too.
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Insecurity Self Love World Yourself
It isn’t enough to think outside the box. Thinking is passive. Get used to acting outside the box.
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Box Enough Passive Thinking
Being selective-doing less-is the path of the productive. Focus on the important few and ignore the rest.
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Ignorance Important Path Production Selection
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.
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Dreams Hold People Trouble
Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.
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Better Competition Thinking Worth Yourself
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.
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Money Poor Resource Simplicity Time Worth Yourself
Money doesn’t change you; it reveals who you are when you no longer have to be nice.
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Change Character Money Reveal Yourself
To do the impossible, you need to ignore the popular.
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Ignorance Impossible Need Popular
Tomorrow becomes never. No matter how small the task, take the first step now!
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Future Past Small Step
There are certain things I will automate, but when it comes to quality control, I want to keep a very close eye.
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Close Control Eyes Myself Quality
I value self-discipline, but creating systems that make it next to impossible to misbehave is more reliable than self-control.
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Control Discipline Independent Value
Requiring a lot of time does not make a task important.
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Important Task Time
Pacifists become militants. Freedom fighters become tyrants. Blessings become curses. Help becomes hindrance. More becomes less.
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Blessing Curse Fight Freedom Help Military Minimalism
A goal without real consequences is wishful thinking. Good follow-through doesn’t depend on the right intentions. It depends on the right incentives.
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Goal Intention Reality Right Thinking
Most people can do absolutely awe-inspiring things. Sometimes they just need a little nudge.
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Encouragement Inspirational Need People
Poisonous people do not deserve your time. To think otherwise is masochistic.
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Deserve People Poison Thinking Time
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.
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Action Avoid Busy Comfortable Criticism Discrimination Form Lazy 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.
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Condition Perfection Universe Way Yourself
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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Action Born Excuse Friendship People Powerful Success
If you don’t have time, you don’t have priorities.
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Important Priority Time Yourself
The decent method you follow is better than the perfect method you quit.
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Better Method Perfection Quit Yourself
What you do is infinitely more important than how you do it.
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Action Important Method Way Yourself
If the challenge we face doesn’t scare us, then it’s probably not that important.
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Challenge Face Important Scare
Just a few words on time management: forget all about it.
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Forget Management Time Word
Fun things happen when you earn dollars, live on pesos, and compensate in rupees.
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Fun Live Management Money

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