Being selective-doing less-is the path of the productive. Focus on the important few and ignore the rest.
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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Exercise is overrated.
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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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Luxury, to me, is not owning a lot of stuff. Luxury, to me, is feeling unrushed.
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It’s not enough to have the right answers. You have to have the right questions.
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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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The most important actions are never comfortable.
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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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Focus on impact, not approval. If you believe you can change the world, which I hope you do, do what you believe is right and expect resistance and expect attackers. Keep calm and carry on!
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To enjoy life, you don’t need fancy nonsense, but you do need to control your time and realize that most things just aren’t as serious as you make them out to be.
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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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The biggest misconception about work is that you need to spend the majority of your time doing it.
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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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An entrepreneur isn’t someone who owns a business, it’s someone who makes things happen.
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When you try to do something big its hard to fail completely.
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What you do is infinitely more important than how you do it.
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Fun things happen when you earn dollars, live on pesos, and compensate in rupees.
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Dreamlining is so named because it applies timelines to what most would consider dreams.
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The only rules and limits are those we set for ourselves.
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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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The fishing is best where the fewest go. There is just less competition for bigger goals.
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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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Requiring a lot of time does not make a task important.
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Many a false step was made by standing still.
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The best way to counter-attack a hater is to make it blatantly obvious that their attack has had no impact on you.
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Poisonous people do not deserve your time. To think otherwise is masochistic.
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