Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.
TIM FERRISSFun things happen when you earn dollars, live on pesos, and compensate in rupees.
More Tim Ferriss Quotes
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That’s precisely the question everyone should be asking-why the hell not? – Why not you, why not now.
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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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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 we define risk as ‘the likelihood of an irreversible negative outcome,’ inaction is the greatest risk of all.
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If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is, too.
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Ninety-nine percent of people believe they can’t do great things, so they aim for mediocrity.
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For uncommon solutions, you have to look in uncommon places.
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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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Sometimes you need to go on a low-information diet.
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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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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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Simplicity requires ruthlessness.
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When you try to do something big its hard to fail completely.
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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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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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If you spend your time, worth $20-25 per hour, doing something that someone else will do for $10 per hour, it’s simply a poor use of resources.
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Tomorrow becomes never. No matter how small the task, take the first step now!
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If the challenge we face doesn’t scare us, then it’s probably not that important.
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I value self-discipline, but creating systems that make it next to impossible to misbehave is more reliable than self-control.
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One can steal ideas, but no one can steal execution or passion.
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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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Learn to be difficult when it counts.
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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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Short, sweet, and to the point. Clear writing, and therefore clear commands, comes from clear thinking. Think simple.
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This is not my phrase, but if you’re stuck in the past, then you’re depressed. If you’re stuck in the future, then you’re anxious.
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What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.
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