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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

Being able to quit things that don’t work is integral to being a winner.
TIM FERRISS

Leaving Quit Winner Work
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
Poisonous people do not deserve your time. To think otherwise is masochistic.
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Deserve People Poison Thinking Time
Most people can do absolutely awe-inspiring things. Sometimes they just need a little nudge.
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Encouragement Inspirational Need People
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
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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Action Born Excuse Friendship People Powerful Success
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
That’s precisely the question everyone should be asking-why the hell not? – Why not you, why not now.
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Hell Question Yourself
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
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
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
Requiring a lot of time does not make a task important.
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Important Task Time
Most inputs are useless and time is wasted in proportion to the amount that is available.
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Available Time Wasted
Emphasize strengths, don’t fix weaknesses.
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Fix Focus Strength Weakness
Dreamlining is so named because it applies timelines to what most would consider dreams.
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Dreams Name Time
Luxury, to me, is not owning a lot of stuff. Luxury, to me, is feeling unrushed.
TIM FERRISS

Feeling Grace Luxury Myself Peace

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