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If we define risk as ‘the likelihood of an irreversible negative outcome,’ inaction is the greatest risk of all.

Tim Ferriss

An entrepreneur isn’t someone who owns a business, it’s someone who makes things happen.
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Business Entrepreneur Inspirational
There is always more information than attention.
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Attention Information
Fun things happen when you earn dollars, live on pesos, and compensate in rupees.
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Fun Live Management Money
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
Role models who push us to exceed our limits, physical training that removes our spare tires, and risks that expand our sphere of comfortable action are all examples of eustress—stress that is healthful and the stimulus for growth.
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Comfortable Growth Health Limitation Modeling Risk Role
Learn to be difficult when it counts.
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Count Difficult Learning
What you do is infinitely more important than how you do it.
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Action Important Method Way Yourself
The biggest misconception about work is that you need to spend the majority of your time doing it.
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Assumption Big Smart Time Work
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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Approve Attack Believe Calm Carry Expectation Focus Hope Resistance Yourself
Ninety-nine percent of people believe they can’t do great things, so they aim for mediocrity.
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Average Believe Greatness People
Exercise is overrated.
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Exercise One Liner
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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Attack Best Hate Impact Yourself
Luxury, to me, is not owning a lot of stuff. Luxury, to me, is feeling unrushed.
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Feeling Grace Luxury Myself Peace
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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Complete Criticism Hold Myself
Learn to ask, “If this is the only thing I accomplish today, will I be satisfied with my day?”
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Accomplishment Day Learning Myself Satisfaction
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

If we define risk as ‘the likelihood of an irreversible negative outcome,’ inaction is the greatest risk of all.

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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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