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Money doesn’t change you; it reveals who you are when you no longer have to be nice.

Tim Ferriss

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
To enjoy life, you don’t need fancy nonsense, but you do need to control your time and realize that most things just aren’t as serious as you make them out to be.
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Control Enjoyment Need Serious Time Yourself
Being able to quit things that don’t work is integral to being a winner.
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Leaving Quit Winner Work
The way that you become world-class is… by asking good questions.
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Goodness Question Way World Yourself
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
If the challenge we face doesn’t scare us, then it’s probably not that important.
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Challenge Face Important Scare
If you don’t have time, you don’t have priorities.
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Important Priority Time 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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Close Control Eyes Myself Quality
Slowing down doesn’t mean accomplishing less; it means cutting out counterproductive distractions and the perception of being rushed.
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Accomplishment Distraction Perception Slow
People will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.
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Happiness People Uncertain
Luxury, to me, is not owning a lot of stuff. Luxury, to me, is feeling unrushed.
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Feeling Grace Luxury Myself Peace
Poisonous people do not deserve your time. To think otherwise is masochistic.
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Deserve People Poison Thinking Time
Most inputs are useless and time is wasted in proportion to the amount that is available.
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Available Time Wasted
When you try to do something big its hard to fail completely.
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Big Failure Inspirational Motivational Try Yourself
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
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

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