There are two components that are fundamental to enjoy life and feel good about yourself: continual learning and service.
TIM FERRISSJust 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.
More Tim Ferriss Quotes
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Fun things happen when you earn dollars, live on pesos, and compensate in rupees.
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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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If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is, too.
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The fishing is best where the fewest go. There is just less competition for bigger goals.
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The question you should be asking isn’t, “What do I want?” or “What are my goals?” but “What would excite me?
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Learn to be difficult when it counts.
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Most people can do absolutely awe-inspiring things. Sometimes they just need a little nudge.
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Poisonous people do not deserve your time. To think otherwise is masochistic.
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For uncommon solutions, you have to look in uncommon places.
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The universe doesn’t conspire against you, but it doesn’t go out of its way to line up the pins either. Conditions are never perfect.
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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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A goal without real consequences is wishful thinking. Good follow-through doesn’t depend on the right intentions. It depends on the right incentives.
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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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Three ingredients of luxury lifestyle design are time, income, and mobility.
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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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Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference.
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Many a false step was made by standing still.
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It’s not enough to have the right answers. You have to have the right questions.
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An entrepreneur isn’t someone who owns a business, it’s someone who makes things happen.
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The decent method you follow is better than the perfect method you quit.
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To do the impossible, you need to ignore the popular.
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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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Emphasize strengths, don’t fix weaknesses.
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People will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.
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If you don’t have time, you don’t have priorities.
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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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