Ninety-nine percent of people believe they can’t do great things, so they aim for mediocrity.
TIM FERRISSCreating 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.
More Tim Ferriss Quotes
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Requiring a lot of time does not make a task important.
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Sometimes you need to go on a low-information diet.
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Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference.
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Fun things happen when you earn dollars, live on pesos, and compensate in rupees.
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Most people can do absolutely awe-inspiring things. Sometimes they just need a little nudge.
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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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If only I had more money is the easiest way to postpone the intense self-examination and decision-making necessary to create a life of enjoyment – now and not later.
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People will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.
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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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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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If you don’t have time, you don’t have priorities.
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The biggest misconception about work is that you need to spend the majority of your time doing it.
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It isn’t enough to think outside the box. Thinking is passive. Get used to acting outside the box.
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Three ingredients of luxury lifestyle design are time, income, and mobility.
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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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