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You can lose money and make it back, you can’t do that with time.

Tim Ferriss

Being selective-doing less-is the path of the productive. Focus on the important few and ignore the rest.
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Ignorance Important Path Production Selection
Fun things happen when you earn dollars, live on pesos, and compensate in rupees.
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Fun Live Management Money
When you try to do something big its hard to fail completely.
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Big Failure Inspirational Motivational Try Yourself
The best way to improve mental performance, is to improve physical performance
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Best Improvement Performance Physical Way Yourself
An entrepreneur isn’t someone who owns a business, it’s someone who makes things happen.
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Business Entrepreneur Inspirational
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
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
Requiring a lot of time does not make a task important.
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Important Task Time
The goal is not to simply eliminate the bad, which does nothing more than leave you with a vacuum, but to pursue and experience the best in the world.
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Best Elimination Experience Goal Leaving Simplicity World
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
Short, sweet, and to the point. Clear writing, and therefore clear commands, comes from clear thinking. Think simple.
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Clear Command Point Simplicity Sweet Thinking Writing
To do the impossible, you need to ignore the popular.
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Ignorance Impossible Need Popular
Learn to be difficult when it counts. In school as in life, having a reputation for being assertive will help you receive preferential treatment without having to beg or fight for it every time.
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Beg Count Difficult Fight Learning Life Reputation Time
Simplicity requires ruthlessness.
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One Liner Simplicity
Three ingredients of luxury lifestyle design are time, income, and mobility.
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Life Luxury Mobility Style
If you don’t have time, the truth is, you don’t have priorities. Think harder; don’t work harder.
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Priority Time Truth Work Yourself
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
There are two components that are fundamental to enjoy life and feel good about yourself: continual learning and service.
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Component Enjoyment Fundamental Learning Service
What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.
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Fear Important Need
I’ll repeat something you might consider tattooing on your forehead: What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.
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Design Fear Head Inspirational Motivational Repeat Tattoo Yourself
Exercise is overrated.
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Exercise One Liner
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
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
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
Age doesn’t matter. An open mind does.
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Age Mindset Open
If it’s important to you and you want to do it ‘eventually’, just do it and correct course along the way.
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Correct Important Way Yourself
You can lose money and make it back, you can’t do that with time.
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Lose Money Time Yourself

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