black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

It isn’t enough to think outside the box. Thinking is passive. Get used to acting outside the box.

Tim Ferriss

For uncommon solutions, you have to look in uncommon places.
TIM FERRISS

Place See Solution Yourself
I’ll repeat something you might consider tattooing on your forehead: What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.
TIM FERRISS

Design Fear Head Inspirational Motivational Repeat Tattoo Yourself
Three ingredients of luxury lifestyle design are time, income, and mobility.
TIM FERRISS

Life Luxury Mobility Style
Age doesn’t matter. An open mind does.
TIM FERRISS

Age Mindset Open
A person’s success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have.
TIM FERRISS

Comfortable Himself Life Measurement Person Success Willing
Exercise is overrated.
TIM FERRISS

Exercise One Liner
For all their bitching about what’s holding them back, most people have a lot of trouble coming up with the defined dreams they’re being held from.
TIM FERRISS

Dreams Hold People Trouble
Pacifists become militants. Freedom fighters become tyrants. Blessings become curses. Help becomes hindrance. More becomes less.
TIM FERRISS

Blessing Curse Fight Freedom Help Military Minimalism
There is always more information than attention.
TIM FERRISS

Attention Information
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.
TIM FERRISS

Action Born Excuse Friendship People Powerful Success
Believe it or not, it is not only possible to accomplish more by doing less, it is mandatory. Enter the world of elimination.
TIM FERRISS

Accomplishment Believe Elimination Mandatory Possible World
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.
TIM FERRISS

Creation Customer Demand Development Easy Production Yourself
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.
TIM FERRISS

Action Avoid Busy Comfortable Criticism Discrimination Form Lazy Thinking
If someone’s criticism is completely unfounded on data, then I don’t want to hear it. It doesn’t hold up to scrutiny.
TIM FERRISS

Complete Criticism Hold Myself
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.
TIM FERRISS

Consumption Data Eat Information Man Source Value Wrong
Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference.
TIM FERRISS

Difference Remember Slow

It isn’t enough to think outside the box. Thinking is passive. Get used to acting outside the box.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

It isn’t enough to think outside the box. Thinking is passive. Get used to acting outside the box.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Tim Ferriss Quotes