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An entrepreneur isn’t someone who owns a business, it’s someone who makes things happen.

Tim Ferriss

If the challenge we face doesn’t scare us, then it’s probably not that important.
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Challenge Face Important Scare
Being able to quit things that don’t work is integral to being a winner.
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Leaving Quit Winner Work
Learn to be difficult when it counts.
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Count Difficult Learning
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
Simplicity requires ruthlessness.
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One Liner Simplicity
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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Big Life Listening People Short Small Thinking
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
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
One can steal ideas, but no one can steal execution or passion.
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Execution Ideas Passion Steal
People will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.
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Happiness People Uncertain
If you don’t have time, the truth is, you don’t have priorities. Think harder; don’t work harder.
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Priority Time Truth Work Yourself
Uncertainty and the prospect of failure can be very scary noises in the shadows. Most people will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.
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Failure Happiness People Scare Shadow Uncertain
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
That’s precisely the question everyone should be asking-why the hell not? – Why not you, why not now.
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Hell Question Yourself
An entrepreneur isn’t someone who owns a business, it’s someone who makes things happen.
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Business Entrepreneur Inspirational
If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is, too.
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Insecurity Self Love World Yourself
For uncommon solutions, you have to look in uncommon places.
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Place See Solution Yourself
Many a false step was made by standing still.
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Coward Fake Mistake Stand Step Wisdom
The best way to improve mental performance, is to improve physical performance
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Best Improvement Performance Physical Way Yourself
A person’s success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have.
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Comfortable Himself Life Measurement Person Success Willing
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
It’s not enough to have the right answers. You have to have the right questions.
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Enough Question Right Yourself
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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Correct Important Way Yourself
Luxury is feeling unrushed. It is designing a life that allows you to do what you want with high leverage, with many options, all while feeling unrushed.
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Design Feeling Life Luxury Option Yourself
Requiring a lot of time does not make a task important.
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Important Task Time
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
The only rules and limits are those we set for ourselves.
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Inspirational Limitation Motivational Ourselves Rule

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