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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.

Tim Ferriss

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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Enjoyment Excitement Inspirational Motivational Myself Question
I have plenty of money to do what I want to do, and I have the relationships.
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Abundance Money Myself Relationship
Being busy is a form of laziness – lazy thinking and indiscriminate action. Being busy is most often used as a guise for avoiding the few critically important but uncomfortable actions.
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Action Avoid Busy Comfortable Criticism Discrimination Form Lazy Thinking
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
Learn to be difficult when it counts. In school as in life, having a reputation for being assertive will help you receive preferential treatment without having to beg or fight for it every time.
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Beg Count Difficult Fight Learning Life Reputation Time
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
Age doesn’t matter. An open mind does.
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Age Mindset Open
An entrepreneur isn’t someone who owns a business, it’s someone who makes things happen.
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Business Entrepreneur Inspirational
Sometimes you need to go on a low-information diet.
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Diet Information Need Time
Fun things happen when you earn dollars, live on pesos, and compensate in rupees.
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Fun Live Management Money
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
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
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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Consumption Data Eat Information Man Source Value Wrong
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
To do the impossible, you need to ignore the popular.
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Ignorance Impossible Need Popular
Believe it or not, it is not only possible to accomplish more by doing less, it is mandatory. Enter the world of elimination.
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Accomplishment Believe Elimination Mandatory Possible World

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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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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