If someone’s criticism is completely unfounded on data, then I don’t want to hear it. It doesn’t hold up to scrutiny.
TIM FERRISSLack of time is actually lack of priorities.
More Tim Ferriss Quotes
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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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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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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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What you do is infinitely more important than how you do it.
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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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One can steal ideas, but no one can steal execution or passion.
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If we define risk as ‘the likelihood of an irreversible negative outcome,’ inaction is the greatest risk of all.
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Think big and don’t listen to people who tell you it can’t be done. Life’s too short to think small.
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Learn to ask, “If this is the only thing I accomplish today, will I be satisfied with my day?”
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Luxury, to me, is not owning a lot of stuff. Luxury, to me, is feeling unrushed.
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Just as modern man consumes both too many calories and calories of no nutritional value, information workers eat data both in excess and from the wrong sources.
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What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.
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Are you better off than you were one year ago, one month ago, or one week ago? If not, things will not improve by themselves.
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Fun things happen when you earn dollars, live on pesos, and compensate in rupees.
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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.
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