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What you do is infinitely more important than how you do it.

Tim Ferriss

If we define risk as ‘the likelihood of an irreversible negative outcome,’ inaction is the greatest risk of all.
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Action Definition Greatness Negative Risk
Being able to quit things that don’t work is integral to being a winner.
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Leaving Quit Winner Work
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 isn’t enough to think outside the box. Thinking is passive. Get used to acting outside the box.
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Box Enough Passive Thinking
Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference.
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Difference Remember Slow
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
The decent method you follow is better than the perfect method you quit.
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Better Method Perfection Quit Yourself
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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Anxiety Depression Future Past Yourself
When you try to do something big its hard to fail completely.
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Big Failure Inspirational Motivational Try Yourself
Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference. Being busy is a form of mental laziness-lazy thinking and indiscriminate action.
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Action Difference Mental Remember Slow Thinking
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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Control Discipline Independent Value
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
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
For all their bitching about what’s holding them back, most people have a lot of trouble coming up with the defined dreams they’re being held from.
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Dreams Hold People Trouble
If you don’t have time, you don’t have priorities.
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Important Priority Time Yourself
Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.
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Better Competition Thinking Worth Yourself
To do the impossible, you need to ignore the popular.
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Ignorance Impossible Need Popular
Many a false step was made by standing still.
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Coward Fake Mistake Stand Step Wisdom
There are certain things I will automate, but when it comes to quality control, I want to keep a very close eye.
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Close Control Eyes Myself Quality
If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is, too.
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Insecurity Self Love World Yourself
Money doesn’t change you; it reveals who you are when you no longer have to be nice.
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Change Character Money Reveal Yourself
Dreamlining is so named because it applies timelines to what most would consider dreams.
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Dreams Name Time
Age doesn’t matter. An open mind does.
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Age Mindset Open
If the challenge we face doesn’t scare us, then it’s probably not that important.
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Challenge Face Important Scare
An entrepreneur isn’t someone who owns a business, it’s someone who makes things happen.
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Business Entrepreneur Inspirational
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
Sometimes you need to go on a low-information diet.
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Diet Information Need Time

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