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There are certain things I will automate, but when it comes to quality control, I want to keep a very close eye.

Tim Ferriss

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
If you don’t have time, you don’t have priorities.
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Important Priority Time Yourself
Most inputs are useless and time is wasted in proportion to the amount that is available.
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Available Time Wasted
Creating demand is hard. Filling demand is easier. Don’t create a product, then seek someone to sell it to. Find a market – define your customers – then find or develop a product for them.
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Creation Customer Demand Development Easy Production Yourself
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
The fishing is best where the fewest go. There is just less competition for bigger goals.
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Best Big Competition Goal Inspirational Motivational
One can steal ideas, but no one can steal execution or passion.
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Execution Ideas Passion Steal
I’ll repeat something you might consider tattooing on your forehead: What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.
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Design Fear Head Inspirational Motivational Repeat Tattoo Yourself
The biggest misconception about work is that you need to spend the majority of your time doing it.
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Assumption Big Smart Time Work
When you try to do something big its hard to fail completely.
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Big Failure Inspirational Motivational Try Yourself
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
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
The way that you become world-class is… by asking good questions.
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Goodness Question Way World Yourself
Being able to quit things that don’t work is integral to being a winner.
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Leaving Quit Winner Work
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
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

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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