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One can steal ideas, but no one can steal execution or passion.

Tim Ferriss

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
What you do is infinitely more important than how you do it.
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Action Important Method Way 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
Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.
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Better Competition Thinking Worth Yourself
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
What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.
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Fear Important Need
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
To do the impossible, you need to ignore the popular.
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Ignorance Impossible Need Popular
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
Poisonous people do not deserve your time. To think otherwise is masochistic.
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Deserve People Poison Thinking Time
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
Emphasize strengths, don’t fix weaknesses.
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Fix Focus Strength Weakness
Requiring a lot of time does not make a task important.
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Important Task Time
Reality is negotiable.
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Deep Life One Liner Reality
Role models who push us to exceed our limits, physical training that removes our spare tires, and risks that expand our sphere of comfortable action are all examples of eustress—stress that is healthful and the stimulus for growth.
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Comfortable Growth Health Limitation Modeling Risk Role
Exercise is overrated.
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Exercise One Liner
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
For uncommon solutions, you have to look in uncommon places.
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Place See Solution Yourself
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
Learn to be difficult when it counts.
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Count Difficult Learning
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.
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Dreams Hold People Trouble
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
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
Three ingredients of luxury lifestyle design are time, income, and mobility.
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Life Luxury Mobility Style
Being able to quit things that don’t work is integral to being a winner.
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Leaving Quit Winner Work
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
Tomorrow becomes never. No matter how small the task, take the first step now!
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Future Past Small Step

One can steal ideas, but no one can steal execution or passion.

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