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Pacifists become militants. Freedom fighters become tyrants. Blessings become curses. Help becomes hindrance. More becomes less.

Tim Ferriss

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
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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Money Poor Resource Simplicity Time Worth Yourself
An entrepreneur isn’t someone who owns a business, it’s someone who makes things happen.
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Business Entrepreneur Inspirational
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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Design Feeling Life Luxury Option Yourself
Many a false step was made by standing still.
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Coward Fake Mistake Stand Step Wisdom
Poisonous people do not deserve your time. To think otherwise is masochistic.
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Deserve People Poison Thinking Time
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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Goal Intention Reality Right Thinking
Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.
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Better Competition Thinking Worth Yourself
You can lose money and make it back, you can’t do that with time.
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Lose Money Time Yourself
Fun things happen when you earn dollars, live on pesos, and compensate in rupees.
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Fun Live Management Money
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
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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Better Improvement Time Yourself
Learn to be difficult when it counts.
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Count Difficult Learning
Just a few words on time management: forget all about it.
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Forget Management Time Word
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
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

Pacifists become militants. Freedom fighters become tyrants. Blessings become curses. Help becomes hindrance. More becomes less.

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