I value self-discipline, but creating systems that make it next to impossible to misbehave is more reliable than self-control.
TIM FERRISSPacifists become militants. Freedom fighters become tyrants. Blessings become curses. Help becomes hindrance. More becomes less.
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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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An entrepreneur isn’t someone who owns a business, it’s someone who makes things happen.
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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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Many a false step was made by standing still.
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Poisonous people do not deserve your time. To think otherwise is masochistic.
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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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Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.
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You can lose money and make it back, you can’t do that with time.
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Fun things happen when you earn dollars, live on pesos, and compensate in rupees.
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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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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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Just a few words on time management: forget all about it.
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Pacifists become militants. Freedom fighters become tyrants. Blessings become curses. Help becomes hindrance. More becomes less.
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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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