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 FERRISSIt’s not enough to have the right answers. You have to have the right questions.
More Tim Ferriss Quotes
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Learn to be difficult when it counts.
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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.
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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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Three ingredients of luxury lifestyle design are time, income, and mobility.
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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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Pacifists become militants. Freedom fighters become tyrants. Blessings become curses. Help becomes hindrance. More becomes less.
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Fun things happen when you earn dollars, live on pesos, and compensate in rupees.
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What you do is infinitely more important than how you do it.
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If the challenge we face doesn’t scare us, then it’s probably not that important.
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The way that you become world-class is… by asking good questions.
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There are two components that are fundamental to enjoy life and feel good about yourself: continual learning and service.
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A person’s success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have.
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Being able to quit things that don’t work is integral to being a winner.
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Lack of time is actually lack of priorities.
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Luxury, to me, is not owning a lot of stuff. Luxury, to me, is feeling unrushed.
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The universe doesn’t conspire against you, but it doesn’t go out of its way to line up the pins either. Conditions are never perfect.
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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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Most inputs are useless and time is wasted in proportion to the amount that is available.
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The decent method you follow is better than the perfect method you quit.
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The most important actions are never comfortable.
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When you try to do something big its hard to fail completely.
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If we define risk as ‘the likelihood of an irreversible negative outcome,’ inaction is the greatest risk of all.
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There is always more information than attention.
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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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Short, sweet, and to the point. Clear writing, and therefore clear commands, comes from clear thinking. Think simple.
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For uncommon solutions, you have to look in uncommon places.
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